Social Bond and Social Self

Modern Clinical Social Research bridges the gap between the psychological and macro-medium sociological and economic approaches to contemporary problems and issues facing the modern citizen. The social self is an essential conceptual tool from which it is possible to investigate the multidimensional networks and complexity of the issues we face today. The form of ties that develop based on tradition, social institutions, and contemporary expanded social networking are the focus of this section of the book. Particular interest is given to describing the escalation of bonds from primordial binary relationships to the symbiotic organization of the biotic world to integrating the individual into binding macro-structures and functions. This chapter emphasizes the link between Clinical Social Research’s treatment of social pathology and building a functional, resilient identity.