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Lévi-Strauss suggested that in these examples the house was a kind of intermediate institution that took its place between societies that were organized through kinship and those where social organization was based on class.
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And it is not always clear in England how such localism squares with devolution, when Westminster government prefers to leapfrog intermediate institutions such as local government.
But trade unions matter as important intermediate institutions in our society, deeply unfashionable though they currently are.
They are two among many intermediate institutions which stand between the individual, the market and the state.
The great German post-Marxist philosopher Jürgen Habermas, as I wrote in my book about the history of eating at restaurants, believed that those intermediate institutions were where the real work of eighteenth-century mind-making got done.
Countries on both sides are seeking more favorable terms from these negotiations, which are often conducted through intermediate institutions like the European Central Bank and various bailout funds.
The authors rhapsodise about the possibility of a "connected society" based on "culture, identity and belonging" and all those "intermediate institutions which link us all together and give fulfilment to our lives".
The answer instead has to be to fashion vibrant intermediate institutions located between the central state and the free market that rebuild a sense of local attachment, recreate respect for traditional jobs and civic identities, and encourage a spirit of mutual obligation embodied in organisations like mutuals and co-op's.
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