This volume examines how generative mechanisms emerge in the social
order and their consequences. It does so in the light of finding
answers to the general question posed in this book series: Will
Late Modernity be replaced by a social formation that could be
called Morphogenic Society? This volume clarifies what a
‘generative mechanism’ is, to achieve a better understanding of
their social origins, and to delineate in what way such mechanisms
exert effects within a current social formation, either stabilizing
it or leading to changes potentially replacing it . The book
explores questions about conjuncture, convergence and
countervailing effects of morphogenetic mechanisms in order to
assess their impact. Simultaneously, it looks at how products of
positive feedback intertwine with the results of (morphostatic)
negative feedback. This process also requires clarification,
especially about the conditions under which morphostasis prevails
over morphogenesis and vice versa. It raises the issue as to
whether their co-existence can be other than short-lived. The
volume addresses whether or not there also is a process of
‘morpho-necrosis’, i.e. the ultimate demise of certain
morphostatic mechanisms, such that they cannot ‘recover’. The
book concludes that not only are generative mechanisms required to
explain associations between variables involved in the replacement
of Late Modernity by Morphogenic Society, but they are also robust
enough to account for cases and times when such variables show no
significant correlations.
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