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Nederveen Pieterse has transferred globalization research, the “research program of multiple modernities,” the strategy of de- and reconstruction of development theory, and the hybridization approach into the research program of global studies. The motive force for these studies is the drastic changing structure of contemporary society since the beginning of the twenty-first century and a response to the ideological descriptions and rhetoric of globalization. Nederveen Pieterse (2012, 36–60) defines the changed situation by shifting the globalization axis from the North-South of the last 200 years to the East-South (Japan, South Korea, and China) axis. For him, the evidence for this shift rests on the following:
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It is often not considered that Luhmann, in the course of his critique of the theory of action, in the chapter “4 Communication and Action” by Luhmann (1995a, 137–175) makes a correction.
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Luhmann (1995a, 426–427): The problem is not at first, how large the socially permissible scope for lonely action is. This is a question of the options for the individual separation of members of social systems. In pre-modern societies, this room for maneuver was not great. In modern society, the change in the system of kinship (modern family), for example, raises the problem of intimacy. Stabilization by delimitation from the social environment is also a problem of the “family” of the next society.
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Preyer, G., Krausse, RM. (2023). Motive Force and Research Program. In: Sociology of the Next Society. Emerging Globalities and Civilizational Perspectives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29140-1_13
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