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On Belonging
“I’m not a joiner,” an architect recently explained to me. We were talking about the AIA and why this 30-something owner of a small firm wasn’t a member. I’ve heard this blanket explanation before, of course, but this architect also happened to be my Facebook “friend.” The contradiction made me think about the nature of joining and belonging in today’s networked culture and how organizations of all types, but membership-based organizations in particular, might evolve in future.
Joining and belonging are not inherently linked. Belonging often happens by default. One gets assigned to certain groups—female, Japanese-American, college-educated, in my case—and to varying degrees, by choice and not, these assignments become part of our identity and inform our life experiences. On the other hand, people join groups for a wide range of reasons—from promoting one’s business, to supporting a cause one believes in, to meeting a future mate—but one might argue that a sense of belonging is what drives sustained membership over time.
Over the past century, the social sciences have delved deeply into the nature of belonging and its imprint on human behavior. Psychologist Abraham Maslow, in his 1943 paper “A Theory of Human Motivation,” placed the need for love and belongin
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The Sacred
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This episode was recorded at The Cultures of Unbelief Conference at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in May 2019. The conference marked the end of the major Understanding Unbelief research programme run by the University of Kent and partners over three years involving 22 projects globally. The conference also marked fifty years since another conference convened by the Vatican, called The Culture of Unbelief which was the first academic conference on atheism.
The guests are Will Gervais and Penny Edgell. Will Gervais is an evolutionary and cultural psychologist, who is interested in why people believe what they believe about the world, and what this means for them psychologically. Penny Edgell is a cultural sociologist with an interest in the growth of the non-religious in America.
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In this episode, you'll hear a conversation with Rhik Samadder, who's a journalist, actor, presenter, and author. He rose to public prominence writing 'Inspect a gadget,' the weekly kitchen-gadget column with a cult following in the Guardian, and now writes weekly about wellness trends. He's also the author of 'I Never Said I Loved You,' a memoir about depression published in August 2019.
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