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In contrast to the welfare economy and the risk regime as the second modernity, sociological theory characterizes contemporary society as a new basic situation and its definition on the threshold of a third modernity and modernization. This addresses the problem of the sociology of the next society. It must be characterized by the globalization of the division of labor and communication networks, financial and labor markets, the requirement of the transition from the welfare economy to the environmental economy and the new welfare state. It “develops beyond liberalism, welfare economics and nation-state in a system of global interdependence” (Münch 1998, 117, 45–117).
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Preyer, G., Krausse, RM. (2023). Third Modernity and Modernization. In: Sociology of the Next Society. Emerging Globalities and Civilizational Perspectives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29140-1_10
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