The Role of New Social Ties in Creating Meaningful Life

This article suggests that communities and social ties support the feeling of being meaningful. The theoretical concepts discussed here are capital, community, new forms ties. data consists 969 answers from citizens different ages three cities. Despite possibilities global ties, Finns seem to be quite traditional when it comes a meaningful life: sources communality “old communities” such as work, work communities, families, relatives. self-determination theory (Deci Ryan, 2000) fits well with Finns: is important recognize personal competence. Nevertheless, not enough competent: people need related others but also have autonomy among others. After covid-19 period enforced remote we ways build relatedness in creating maintaining