EAN: 9783319430706

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN SOCIOLOGY UNDERSTANDING THE...

This book offers a comparison between our earthly society and the society of a hypothetical
twin planet with the aim to understand and deal with some of the main problems of our global
society  as well as to advance interaction with some extra-terrestrial society no less advanced
than ours that sooner or later will be discovered. The underlying premise of the book is that
the contemporary world finds itself in what may well be the most confused age of human history.
Growing technological changes and innovation make it difficult to understand the course of
social reality  while the intensification of the relations between different regions of the
Earth and the power achieved by financial capital on a world scale amplify the dimensions and
visibility of disequilibria and iniquities  and sharpen frustration and sentiments of
insecurity. Social thought  as it has developed at the service of a quasi-stationary world 
lacks the ability to understand and govern the tumultuous economic and social processes in
progress. The most efficacious way to meet this fleeting social reality is to scientifically
highlight basic institutions and values and their steady changes caused by the accumulation of
creative and choice processes. In doing so  long-run trends can be explored in order to
understand and manage the disequilibrating-reequilibrating motion characterizing the life of
dynamic societies. This book shows the 'necessity' of institutional and ethical transformations
utilizing an utopian flavour.

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