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

Gerhard Preyer (Dr. phil. habil.) is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt a. M., &nbsp;Germany. He teaches courses on sociology at the Goethe University and philosophy at West European&nbsp;&nbsp;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&nbsp;<i>ProtoSociology. An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research</i>. Some of his recent publications are: S. Miguens, G. Preyer, C. Bravo Morando eds.,&nbsp;<i>Pre-Reflective Consciousness. Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind</i>&nbsp;(London: Routledge 2016, New York 2017); G. Preyer ed.,&nbsp;<i>Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics</i>&nbsp;(Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, 2018); G. Preyer, G. Peter eds.,&nbsp;<i>Social Ontology and Collective Intentionality. Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Raimo Tuomela with His Responses</i>&nbsp;(Cham: Springer, 2017); G. Preyer,&nbsp;<i>Soziologische Theorie der Gegenwartsgesellschaft</i>&nbsp;(3 vols., 2e), Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2018).<p>&nbsp;</p>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.&nbsp;He has published several research volumes in German, among them being:&nbsp;<i>Hybridisierung Chinas Modernisierung und Mitgliedschaftsordnung der chinesischen Gesellschaft</i>&nbsp;(Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2016),&nbsp;<i>Ohnmächtige Weltmacht China: Modernisierung ohne Harmonie</i>&nbsp;(Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2017, with G. Preyer).

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.<div><br></div><div>This book is of interest to researchers and students of social theory, globalization studies, theory of evolution, and those studying modern Chinese society.&nbsp;</div>

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’