Abstract
»Societies« have always consisted of multiple, overlapping, intersecting networks of interaction, at the boundaries of each of which occurs a certain degree of cleavage. »Societies« have never been unitary but multiply-bounded. They have never totally caged their members, but the extent to which they have caged them has varied. It is these »degrees of multiple-boundedness« that I will here discuss across recent history and across the world today.
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Mann, M. (1999). Some Long-term Trends in the Multiple-Boundedness of Societies. In: Honegger, C., Hradil, S., Traxler, F. (eds) Grenzenlose Gesellschaft?. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-93332-4_9
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