Gender and Family Studies

Gender and Family Studies

Family Functions in the Post-Covid 19 Network Structure

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Hamed Hajiheidari
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Tehran
Abstract
From the middle of the 1990s, with the expansion of the performance of artificial intelligences (which was clearly manifested in the expansion of Google's visibility), with a wide transformation in the bio-social life, we faced a phenomenon that Manuel Castells called "the networked society" and now we are confident that we should honestly remove "society" from it and call it merely as a "network". The characteristic of this new form is that machines, especially intelligent machines, rather than individuals are predominantly the partners of our social division of labor. Moreover, this phenomenon has transformed society from the product of the division of human labor to a network, which is the product of the division of labor among operators and the division of leisure among humans. The outbreak of Covid-19 explosively promoted the spread of machines in network oriented division of work, and now all social institutions are faced with a subversive situation, and among these institutions, the basic institution is family.
The most important feature of the new situation is that the distinction and border between the work place, family environment and leisure time is getting more blurred. This study, applying Zimel's analytical method, indicates that if family can successfully manage leisure time and can create a suitable environment for consolidation of members' work activities, leisure activities, and family and kinship activities, including communication and educational activities, and other collaborations, it turns out to act as a singular intimate network unit that no other network organization can replace it in today's and future world.
Keywords
family functions
network oriented structure of life
post-Covid 19
artificial intelligence
responsible intimacy
division of leisure
post- decline family
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