Deep Change and Emergent Structures in Global Society
Deep Change and Emergent Structures in Global Society: Explorations in Social Morphogenesis
by Andrea M. Maccarini
English | 2019 | ISBN: 303013623X | 287 Pages | PDF | 3.35 MB
by Andrea M. Maccarini
English | 2019 | ISBN: 303013623X | 287 Pages | PDF | 3.35 MB
This book addresses the problem of the transition to new forms of social order in the global world. As a haunting sense of historical discontinuity pervades Western societies, it offers a fresh perspective on the issue, focusing on two basic coordinates to pinpoint the developmental path of rapidly changing societies: one is the mechanism of unfettered social morphogenesis and the other is the specific kind of societal unification brought about by globalization, with the related closure of the world. The book draws on the theoretical work produced in the five volumes of the Springer series ‘’Social Morphogenesis’’ and applies it in a sustained and concerted approach to the empirical examination of macro-social change.