I'm still not seeing a point. Obviously the political situation influences personal situations of people, and sufficiently widespread systematic changes in people's behavior influence aspects of the political situation. (What is the particular relevance for this point of the examples you chose?) The micropolitics you allude to is more about game theory than the global politics that's usually meant by the word. With this understood, what is the thesis worth making, or the "empirical claim" you've referred to?