An enormous acceleration of history has occurred in the current
decade, thereby radically changing world society in many respects.
The core countries - grouped around the triad formed by the United
States, Japan, and the European Union - have experienced successive
waves of change marked by phases of ascent, unfolding, and decay of
societal models. What seemed stable and predictable in past decades
came close to collapse or broke down entirely. As a result, we are
now living through a crisis of legitimation characterized by acute
contradictions. A new order, with a fresh, basic consensus around
an overarching set of norms that allows problems to be solved
efficiently, has not yet crystallized.Western Society in Transition
examines the succession of societal models of the Western world and
indications of its probable shape in the future. Bornschier
characterizes the 1985-1995 period as a decade of Third World debt
and depression; continued economic decline in the United States; a
steady ascent of Japan; Western Europe's move toward political
union, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Against this
background, he sketches various elements of a theoretical
perspective he calls evolutionary conflict theory. The primary
focus of interest of this theory is not on single societies, but on
measures of social transformation at the core of world society.
Western Society in Transition deals with fundamental questions: How
does social order arise and why does it dissolve? What provides
social cohesion? What makes society progress? Institutional spheres
of Western society such as technology, firms, the market, state
building, education, power, conflict, and social movements are
analyzed in detail.Peter Lengyel, editor emeritus of the
International Social Science Journal says of Western Society in
Transition, "I have never seen such a succinct, clear, and
persuasive treatment which adroitly draws together elements from
economics, history, sociology, and technology into a strictly
contemporary kind of political economy." This timely assessment of
the Western world will be of interest to social scientists,
historians, economists, and international relations scholars.
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