Social Change and Modernity

Contents
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE MODERNITY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Modernity and Social Movements
Two Interpretations of Contemporary Social Change
Dialectics of Modernity: Reenchantment and Dedifferentiation as Counterprocesses
PART TWO MODERNITY AND INEQUALITY
Modernity and Ascription
Employment, Class, and Mobility: A Critique of Liberal and Marxist Theories of Long-term Change
Social Change in the United States: The System of Equality and Inequality
PART THREE MODERNITY AND GENERAL STRUCTURAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE
Durkheim's Problem and Differentiation Theory Today
The Infrastructure of Modernity: Indirect Social Relationships, Information Technology, and Social Integration
The Future of Capitalism
Cultural Change and Sociological Theory
PART FOUR EVOLUTIONARY THEMES
The Direction of Evolution
The Temporalization of Social Order: Some Theoretical Remarks on the Change in "Change"
Contradictions and Social Evolution: A Theory of the Social Evolution of Modernity
World Society Versus Niche Societies: Paradoxes of Unidirectional Evolution
PART FIVE INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL THEMES
External and Internal Factors in Theories of Social Change
Globality, Global Culture, and Images of World Order
A Reappraisal of Theories of Social Change and Modernization