Four Global Trends

Rise and Limitations

Bibliographic Data

ID2356489
AuthorsNikolai Genov (0000-0002-0266-1991, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, corresponding author), Nikolai B Genov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia)
Year1997
Volume12
Issue4
Pages409-428
Publication date1997-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0268-5809 • E-ISSN: 1461-7242
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/026858097012004003
OpenAlexW2036237946
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited19

The world seems to be rushing into the state of a global risk-society. Is the diagnosis correct? What are the causes and reasons of the current tensions? What are the prospects? Four global trends are assumed to penetrate the new constellations of cooperation and conflict. The spreading of instrumental activism has its roots in the 'conquer and dominate' philosophy of modern industrialism. It is trapped by its own expansion. Individualization is embodied in major evolutionary achievements. It is simultaneously the source of cultural and institutional imbalances. Modernity is marked by an accelerated upgrading of organizational rationality. The process brings about organizational pathologies as well. We witness a fast value-normative universalization. It is paralleled by symbolic and institutional particularizations. Managing these four inherently controversial trends is the major challenge to continuing modernization

Economics · Economy · Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Industrial society · Modernity · Modernization theory · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Positive economics · Rationality · Risk society · Social science · Sociology · Universalization · Witness · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Globalization and Economic Impact · Law · World Systems and Global Transformations

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