Outlook: Difference in Membership Conditions

Abstract

The changed basic situation of the social membership regulations and the assessment of the present systematizations require a different research program. It should also be assumed that in the struggle of transnational status groups and the uncorrected transformation of social stratification, competition between interest groups is not more peaceful. The constitutive structures of world society as a society of societies can also reinforce these rules of difference. Economic exchanges in the major regions will not automatically bring prosperity to the exclusion areas. On this front, significant exclusions are to be expected as well, exclusions that also apply to Western Europe. The sociological analysis of the problem is the extent to which economic, institutional, and educational conditions reduce social, economic, and political inequality among members of society. It is difficult to make predictions about this. It can be assumed that the declining and uncompetitive regions will suffer large welfare losses as a result of an expansion of the social division of labor. The Western humanist elite is unlikely to alter that.