The Journal

The Project

  

Preface

Introduction: Theoretical view and structure of investigation

Part I
Inventory of sociological theory

1. Update of sociological theory

2. The many faces of globalization
3. Transitional situation
4. Outlook: Difference in membership conditions

Part II
Retrospective view: Western modernizations

1. Question
2. First modernity and modernization
3. Second modernity and modernization
4. Third modernity and modernization
5. Redeployment of solidarity integration
6. Outlook: The end of Western modernization

Part III
Global studies

1. Motive force and research program
2. Renewal of the concept of society
3. Dimensions of globalization
4. Outlook: permanent irritation

 

Gerhard Preyer and Reuß-Markus Krauße

Sociology of the Next Society: Multiple Modernities, Glocalization and Membership Order

Part IV
Third research program:
Multiple modernities, membership and globalization

1. Reference problem
2. Culture: correction of the fundamentals
3. Working hypothesis
4. Integration theory
5. Research foci of membership orders
and the new social movements
6. Outlook: Changed basic situation, self-irritation, and learning

Part V

Membership order of Chinese society without solidarity integration

 

 

 

Springer,
Heidelberg, Germany. 2023