Sociology of the Next Society: Multiple Modernities, Glocalization and Membership Order (Paperback, 2023)

Introduction.- ?Part I?Inventory of Sociological Theory.- ?State of research.- ?Transitional Situation.- ?Outlook: Difference in Membership Conditions.- ?Part II?Retrospective view: Western modernizations.- ?Question.- ?First?modernity and modernization.- ?Second?modernity and modernization.- ?Third?modernity and modernization.- ?Redeployment of solidarity integration.- ?Outlook: The end of Western modernization.- ?Part III?Global Studies.- ?Motive force and research program.- ?Renewal of the concept of society.- ?Dimensions of globalization.- ?Outlook: Permanent irritation.- ?Part IV?Third research programme:?Multiple modernities, membership and globalization.- ?Reference problem.- ?Culture: correction of the fundamentals.- ?Working hypothesis.- ?Integration theory .- ?Research foci of membership orders.- ?Outlook: Changed basic situation, self-irritation, and learning.- ?Part V?Membership order of Chinese society without solidarity integration.- ?China's modernization.- ?Stabilization in difference.- ?Modernization without harmony: main conflicts.- ?Outlook: further modernization.- ?Part VI?Sociology of the next society:?Redeployment of sociological theory.- ?Postmodernism, differentiation of institutions.- ?Functional systems.- ?An observation: flood of scandals.- ?Populism.- ?Transition to the next society.- ?Globalization research and socio-structural semantics.- ?Self-description of the next society.- ?Outlook: Inhomogeneous social structure.?
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