Sociology of the Next Society: Multiple Modernities, Glocalization and Membership Order (Emerging Globalities and Civilizational Perspectives)

This innovative volume provides insight into the vast changes in societies now and in the near future, and highlights the need for a new sociological approach to analyse these changes. It particularly reviews and critiques existing theories of globalization and analyses how global changes affect all subsystems of social membership systems: the scientific, academic, legal and political systems. The authors propose a new theoretical paradigm in sociology to analyse this “next society”. The book studies emergent communication structures between these systems and looks at the concept of membership as a new research area in the study of the next society. In this context, it particularly assesses the problems of further modernization of Chinese society, and the directions of this modernization. This book is of interest to researchers and students of social theory, globalization studies, theory of evolution, and those studying modern Chinese society. Preface Introduction: Theoretical View and Structure Of Investigation Acknowledgments Contents Chapter 1: Background Presuppositions Research Background Social Ontology, Placing the Observer Theoretical View Globalization Research Chapter 2: Systematization of the Book Overview of the Study Continuous Transitions Other Basic Considerations Short Outlook Part I: Inventory of Sociological Theory Chapter 3: Update of Sociological Theory Sociology of Membership New Turn Membership Selection Morphogenesis of Membership Evolutionary Survival Inclusions-Exclusions Order Membership Order of the Next Society Differentiation of Membership Order Market Systematization of Globalization Research and the Theoretical Accounts in Sociological Theory State of Research Theoretical Approaches Chapter 4: The Many Faces of Globalization Homogenizers, Heterogenizers, and Glocalization Homogenizers Global Modernity Classification in Western Social History Heterogenizers Criticism of the Universal Claim of the West Theoretical Orientation Glocalization Global Consciousness Global and Local Hybridization Symbiotic Syncretism Being in Between Creolization Criticism of Humanism Methodological Steps Multiple Modernities Criticism of the Validity of the Western Model of Modernization Classical Modernization Theory Redeployment Robertson-Axford Problem Follow-Up Problem Continuation of the Research Program Once Again: Robertson-Axford Problem Network Morphology Changed Observation of Interaction Systems Network and Social Framework Network and Membership Chapter 5: Transitional Situation Consensus and Dissent Misleading Term Reference Problem of the Globalization Research Replacing the Concept of Globalization Multidimensional Networking Redefining Globalization Research Redeployment Changed Initial Situation Chapter 6: Outlook: Difference in Membership Conditions Strengthening the Condition of Difference Difference from Early Modernity Confrontations Part II: Retrospective View: Western Modernizations Chapter 7: Question Organizational Principles Concept of Risk Western Modernizations Classification in Western Social History Chapter 8: First Modernity and Modernization Structural Problems Individualistic Professional Ethics and Damage Limitation Chapter 9: Second Modernity and Modernization Keynesian Membership Order Social Compromise Limit of the Welfare Program Chapter 10: Third Modernity and Modernization New Basic Situation Correction of a Terminology Chapter 11: Redeployment of Solidarity Integration Problem-Related Structural Changes Change of the Functional Subsystem Limits of Societal Control, Claims of Human Capital and Humanist Elites Change of Zones of Interpenetration New Placement of the Sociological Observer Restructuring of the Zones of Interpenetration Zone of Interpenetration: Economic-System-Political System Zone of Interpenetration: Economic System-Science System Zone of Interpenetration: Science-System-Education-System-Political System Zone of Interpenetration: Economic-System-Expectations of Members of Social Systems Zone of Interpenetration: Legal-System-Other Functional Systems Interpenetration Zones Multi-level Model and Global Governance Structural Change Restructuring of Political Communication Chapter 12: Outlook: The End of Western Modernization Inventory Paradoxes of Modernity Deconstruction-Reconstruction Part III: Global Studies Chapter 13: Motive Force and Research Program Structural Change Resystematization of Sociological Theory Connectivity Multicentric World Society Chapter 14: Renewal of the Concept of Society Frame of Reference for the Theory of Society Different Society as Mixed Formations Hybridized, Glocalized Modernization Chapter 15: Dimensions of Globalization Placement of the Observer Structural Change Chapter 16: Outlook: Permanent Irritation Initial Situation Restructuring of Membership Order New Conflicts Part IV: Third Research Program: Multiple Modernities, Membership and Globalization Chapter 17: Reference Problem Sociology of Regional Societies Theoretical Initial Situation Changed Design Chapter 18: Culture: Correction of the Fundamentals Restructuring Cultural Science Sense Constructions (Sinngebilde) Correction Cultural Communication New Syncretism Segmentary Culture New Demarcation Struggles Chapter 19: Working Hypothesis Social Integration Reference Problem Chapter 20: Integration Theory Concept of Integration Reference Problem Loss of Plausibility Structural Problem of Communication Problem-Related Social Integration What Does Membership Integration Mean? De-Solidarization Concept of Integration Negative and Positive Integration Negative Solidarity Positive Integration Some Surprising Conclusions Non-Perfectibility Pluralistic Damage Limitation Change of the Welfare State Divergence Order Differentiated Membership Order Stratification Control of the Flow of Resources Basic Elites Old Stratification of Europe European Stratification Changed Situation European Stratification Structure Transnational Division of Labor and Restructuring of Social Stratification Level of Education and Income New Stratification Structure Differentiation of Stratification Recast Functional Differentiation Hegemonic Liberalization Structural Anomaly Human Capital Individualism Changed Thinking Requirements Welfare Pluralism Chapter 21: Research Foci of Membership Orders Initial Situation Update Placement of the Observer Structural Change in Functional Systems and Their Institutions From the Present to the Future Political System ``Global Governance or World Drift? ́ ́ Thesis What Global Governance Means Multi-Level Democracy Economic System Expansion of the Economic System Thesis Origin of Die New Structure Labor Market Legal System Legal Communication Thesis Decision Focused System The Future of Law The Structural Change of Communication Systems by Social Networking and the Modern Communication Technology Intermediate Sector Digitalization of Communication Systems Collective Identities, Social Structure, and New Social Movements Membership Order and the Structure of Social Integration Society as Collectivity Macrosociology Collective Identities and Political System Coding of Collective Identities New Social Movements Collective Identities and Political System Chapter 22: Outlook: Changed Basic Situation, Self-Irritation, and Learning Time Dimension Regulatory Limits Self-Irritation Redeployment PartPart50005607501 Introduction: Theoretical Approach Reference Problems Deviation from the Western Development Path Alternative Research Program Chapter 23: China ́s Modernization Redeployment of the Social Structure Triggering Modernization First Thesis Next Step The Political Center as a Pacemaker Modernization and Integration Through Internal Stabilization China ́s Economy and the Global Economic System China ́s Institutionalization of Conflict Distinctions Collective Integration Through the Myth of a Success Story Political Center and Economic Growth New Problems Chapter 24: Stabilization in Difference Welfare Integration Political Program Non-Controllability Protest Without Disintegration Social Integration Without Solidarity Integration Symbiosis of Business and Politics In the Typhoon Social Integration Without Prosperity for all Difference Instead of Consensus No welfare Program of Damage Limitation The Current Cultural and Political Program Current Political Program Self-Description Second Thesis Chapter 25: Modernization without ``Harmony ́ ́: Main Conflicts as Immune Events Main Conflict: Triggering Immune Events Conclusion Chapter 26: Outlook: Further Modernization Political Center Typical Features Part VI: Sociology of the Next Society: Redeployment of Sociological Theory Chapter 27: Postmodernism, Differentiation of Institutions, and Structural Change Research Priorities Social Order and Social Integration Chapter 28: Functional Systems Political System Individualistic Inclusion Program Control Regime Welfare Regime Research Priorities Economic System Labor Market Center-Periphery Constellation Research Priorities Legal System Law as a Medium of Conflict Propagation Differentiation of Legal Systems Decision-Making Conditions Formal and Informal Law Weighing Up Decision, Values, and Legal Interests Localization Research Priorities Chapter 29: An Observation: Flood of Scandals The Function of Scandals Value Fundamentalism Sense of the Scandal Failure of the Cleansing Effect Chapter 30: Populism Problem Identification Emancipation of Populism Structural Performance Limits of the Political System Simplified Orientation Chapter 31: Transition to the Next Society Next Society Glocalization Constitutive Structures Transitional Situation New Function of Technology Chapter 32: Globalization Research and Socio-Structural Semantics Reorientation of Globalization Research New Media and Self-Description Change of Meaning Chapter 33: Self-Description of the Next Society Post-Hybridization Connection Problem of Communication End of Perfection Ideas Chapter 34: Outlook: Inhomogeneous Social Structure Basic Problem: Membership Conditions Self-Knowledge of Society Bibliography ProtoSociology [Publication of the segments: Sociological theory, globalization, theory of modernization, multiple modernities... 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