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To intellectuals rooted in political economy, a continuing surprise was the rise of a huge middle class. One conception (clear in the work of Bell) was that this represented a stabilizing balance against conflict and domination. But in later, more economistic thinking, the expanding middle class reflected a natural and functional economic progression toward a post-industrial economy. And indeed, in much social theory (including Bell) it came to be seen as if it the school teacher and the psychiatrist were economically functional. From this point of view, the expansion in human self-expression and empowerment was a natural functional development involving education, information, and complex processing. But from the earlier pluralist point of view, much of it was dangerously destabilizing, irrational and post-modern in the worst sense. Bell shifted back and forth. A core intellectual problem here lies in the over-expanded contemporary conception of the "economic." A second related core problem lies in excessively narrow conceptions of the political and of the religious and cultural cosmologies of a globalizing era. The society of rationalized organization transcends the economy, and depends heavily on a knowledge system with religious-like functions.
Prof. em. John W. Meyer ist derzeit Gast des Centrums für Globalisierung und Governance an der Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Hamburg. Er lehrte an der Stanford University; Mitglied des Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) sowie Senior Fellow im Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI).
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Georg Krücken, Direktor des Internationalen Zentrums für Hochschulforschung (INCHER) an der Universität Kassel
Information on participating / attending:
Beginn: 20 Uhr
Eintritt: frei
Date:
06/07/2012 20:00 - 06/07/2012 21:30
Event venue:
Ort: Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, Mittelweg 36
Raum 106, 1. Stock
20148 Hamburg
Hamburg
Germany
Target group:
all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
05/31/2012
Sender/author:
Dr. Regine Klose-Wolf
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
German
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event39895
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