Cocooning

( Pupate dt, to cocoon ) As Cocooning is especially trend researchers indicates a tendency to increasingly withdraw from civil society and the public in the private domestic life. The term is used in contrast to the so-called Clanning (search for group membership ).

Term

The term from the English actually refers to the pupation of insects that cocoon themselves in a cocoon for the transitional stage between the insect larva and mature full- insect. It was first used in the late 1980s by the U.S. trend forecaster Faith Popcorn. Previously, such a life was already addressed by the term cozy home.

The sociologist Holger Rust expressed in 1995 critical of the term " cocooning was invented at the beginning of the eighties and became one of the most successful concepts of journalistic prayer wheel spin. "

Especially in the confusing, perceived as threatening world as in times of crisis or after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 was to a larger extent such a tendency in the mainstream. Economy and Trade offer a variety of products that are intended to assist consumers in the cocooning.

A move from the city to the country (see also urban flight ) can be motivated by a desire for cocooning:

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