BHA: Reproduction, Perpetuation, or Sustaining

[Ismail Lagardien <ilagardien@xxxxxxxxx>]

This may be semantic, but surely, peope who get married, don't "reproduce" the institution of marraige, the simply perpetuate, or sustain it. It may well be that it has been transformed, or in the process of being transformed because some of the rules, laws, conventions or traditions that tend to shape the "social relations" of husband and wife, may be changing.

For example - again, closer to my research - that China, for example, sought to "buy into" the international system of exchange in its search/demand for membership of the WTO, it can be said they did not seek to "overthrow" or "replace" or "transform" this system of exchange, nor did they seek to reproduce it by creating a separate contiguous structure... Their membership - and by extension acceptance of it - merely strengthens it.

Ismail

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