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The Sociology of Human Bonds

Family, Community, and Change in the Modern World

By Dr. Saira Siddiqui

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Lumina Literati Publishing
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2026 · First edition
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978-627-7813-58-1
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10.65758/isbn.9786277813581
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This book examines how family, friendship, community, and digital ties are reshaped by social change. Drawing on classical and contemporary sociology, it considers how relationships are formed, measured, maintained, and disrupted. Case studies explore family change, local communities, online connection, migration, and care across borders.

The Elective–Embedded Bond Framework brings together the roles of choice, obligation, institutions, and material resources. The final chapter considers implications for care policy, social infrastructure, health, and future research. Its central argument is that modernity reorganizes belonging in uneven ways rather than producing a simple decline in human connection.

Inside the book

  1. 01

    The Architecture of Belonging

    Defining, Theorizing, and Situating Human Bonds

  2. 02

    Studying the Ties That Bind

    Methodology, Measurement, and Evidence

  3. 03

    Bonds in Transformation

    Case Studies of a Changing Social World

  4. 04

    The Logic of Bonds

    A Theoretical Framework for Connection and Change

  5. 05

    The Future of Belonging

    Implications for Policy, Care, Health, and the Study of Human Bonds

About the author

Dr. Saira Siddiqui

Dr. Saira Siddiqui is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, at Government College University Faisalabad. She has more than a decade of experience in teaching and curriculum development. Her research focuses on gender studies, medical sociology, human development, and social justice, including the relationships between cultural values, gender inequality, and women’s health in rural Punjab, Pakistan. She is the coauthor, with Kashif Lodhi, of Sustainability and Law in the Third World and the author of Community Development Failures in Pakistan: A Sociological Analysis and Pathways to Improvement.

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