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Sociology of the Next Society

Multiple Modernities, Glocalization and Membership Order

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Authors:
  1. Gerhard Preyer

    1. Institute of Sociology, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt a. M., Germany

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  2. Reuss-Markus Krausse

    1. Project Protosociology, Institute of Sociology, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt a. M., Germany

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  • Updates sociological research on globalization and multiple modernites
  • Provides a new conceptual framework to the study of globalizing societies
  • Discusses the constitutive structure of ‘world society’

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Table of contents (34 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Background Presuppositions

    • Gerhard Preyer, Reuss-Markus Krausse
    Pages 1-5

  3. Systematization of the Book

    • Gerhard Preyer, Reuss-Markus Krausse
    Pages 7-15

  4. Inventory of Sociological Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Update of Sociological Theory

      • Gerhard Preyer, Reuss-Markus Krausse
      Pages 19-28

    3. The Many Faces of Globalization

      • Gerhard Preyer, Reuss-Markus Krausse
      Pages 29-40

    4. Transitional Situation

      • Gerhard Preyer, Reuss-Markus Krausse
      Pages 41-46

    5. Outlook: Difference in Membership Conditions

      • Gerhard Preyer, Reuss-Markus Krausse
      Pages 47-49

  5. Retrospective View: Western Modernizations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. Question

      • Gerhard Preyer, Reuss-Markus Krausse
      Pages 53-56

    3. First Modernity and Modernization

      • Gerhard Preyer, Reuss-Markus Krausse
      Pages 57-58

    4. Second Modernity and Modernization

      • Gerhard Preyer, Reuss-Markus Krausse
      Pages 59-61

    5. Third Modernity and Modernization

      • Gerhard Preyer, Reuss-Markus Krausse
      Pages 63-64

    6. Redeployment of Solidarity Integration

      • Gerhard Preyer, Reuss-Markus Krausse
      Pages 65-71

    7. Outlook: The End of Western Modernization

      • Gerhard Preyer, Reuss-Markus Krausse
      Pages 73-76

  6. Global Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Motive Force and Research Program

      • Gerhard Preyer, Reuss-Markus Krausse
      Pages 79-82

    3. Renewal of the Concept of Society

      • Gerhard Preyer, Reuss-Markus Krausse
      Pages 83-85

    4. Dimensions of Globalization

      • Gerhard Preyer, Reuss-Markus Krausse
      Pages 87-88

    5. Outlook: Permanent Irritation

      • Gerhard Preyer, Reuss-Markus Krausse
      Pages 89-91
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About this book

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. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Sociology, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt a. M., Germany

    Gerhard Preyer

  • Project Protosociology, Institute of Sociology, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt a. M., Germany

    Reuss-Markus Krausse

About the authors

Gerhard Preyer (Dr. phil. habil.) is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt a. M.,  Germany. He teaches courses on sociology at the Goethe University and philosophy at West European  Universities and China. His areas of research are the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, sociological theory and comparative sociology. He is the editor of ProtoSociology. An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research. Some of his recent publications are: S. Miguens, G. Preyer, C. Bravo Morando eds., Pre-Reflective Consciousness. Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind (London: Routledge 2016, New York 2017); G. Preyer ed., Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics (Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, 2018); G. Preyer, G. Peter eds., Social Ontology and Collective Intentionality. Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Raimo Tuomela with His Responses (Cham: Springer, 2017); G. Preyer, Soziologische Theorie der Gegenwartsgesellschaft (3 vols., 2e), Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2018).

 

Reuss-Markus Krauße (Dr. phil.) works on the ProtoSociology project at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. He is a management consultant and intercultural trainer for successful cooperation with business partners from China. He has published several research volumes in German, among them being: Hybridisierung Chinas Modernisierung und Mitgliedschaftsordnung der chinesischen Gesellschaft (Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2016), Ohnmächtige Weltmacht China: Modernisierung ohne Harmonie (Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2017, with G. Preyer).

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