urbanization erodes community
i.e. makes the family more nuclear. But your report seems to indicate either more change than he implied, or that he was wrong about Finland in 1983.
I assume that “universalist” corresponds to “community”?
No, universalism is a separate dimension, probably resulting more from equality than from community.
He uses it pretty broadly, without a clear definition:
Most of the universalist ideologies agree in their portrayal of the idea of fraternity: from Christianity, which holds that all men are brothers, to the Third International which co-ordinates fraternal relations between parties.
His description of the opposite is maybe clearer: “all the forms of parochialism, all types of ethnocentricity”.
Looking up government statistics for Finnish household size over the years, they give an average size of 2.46 persons for 1981 and 2.41 for 1986, which sounds pretty nuclear already. (There’s a steady downwards trend from 3.35 in 1966 to 2.02 in 2016).
I did note that he says:
No, universalism is a separate dimension, probably resulting more from equality than from community.
What’s the definition of universalism? It’s mentioned a bunch in the post.
He uses it pretty broadly, without a clear definition:
His description of the opposite is maybe clearer: “all the forms of parochialism, all types of ethnocentricity”.
Looking up government statistics for Finnish household size over the years, they give an average size of 2.46 persons for 1981 and 2.41 for 1986, which sounds pretty nuclear already. (There’s a steady downwards trend from 3.35 in 1966 to 2.02 in 2016).