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