Gerhard Preyer: Sociology of the Next Society, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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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.