By Simon Prideaux
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In this respect, this persistence provided the platform for organisational theorists to develop their more particularistic form of structuralfunctionalism into highly influential contemporary accounts of community and social relations. For this reason, Chapter Three of this book moves on to discuss the origins of the philosophy behind the resultant new communitarian movement and the influence of Amitai Etzioni and, to a lesser extent, that of Philip Selznick. Ultimately, it provides the tools for this book to secure the bridge that links the social policies of New Labour to that of structural-functionalism of the Parsonian kind.
It would not be the case of having to live a life of self-sacrifice, altruism or austerity; more, it would be a life dedicated to the pursuit of “legitimate opportunities and socially constructive expressions of self-interest” (Etzioni, 1995, p 2). In the same vein, these new communitarians hold that powerful interest groups can be restrained without limiting the constitutional right of the individual to lobby and petition those empowered to govern. It is an argument that appears to rearrange “the intellectual-political map” (Etzioni, 1997, p 7) by offering “a third way between anarchic individualism and repressive conformity” (Levitas, 1998, p 90).
Nevertheless, his basic assumption that dependency rose is evident through the very fact that he introduced the proposition in the first place. With regards to those in work, Etzioni is less reserved in his arguments. Household income, he informs us, was on the increase. But this was less to do with an increase in real income for the individual; rather, it was down to a greater financial need or reliance upon more than one member of a household having to participate in the labour market. For Etzioni (1997, p 67): [this] development had strong autonomy-reducing effects as more and more members of the family felt they were forced to work outside the household and had severely limited time for other purposes, including family, community, and volunteer action.
