Social simplification during the corona-virus pandemic

Authors

  • Rudolf Stichweh Universität Bonn

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1806-5023.2020v17n2p16

Abstract

The modern society in which we have lived for 250 years is based on a complete exchange of social orders. Instead of hierarchically ordered estates, society replaces them with thematically and functionally oriented communication systems. These systems are, without exception, global systems: politics, economics, religion, science, education, law, art, sports, the mass media, the health or disease system, as well as the system of intimate and family relationships. In the context of the crisis caused by the corona-virus, a key sociological question is whether this social order of modernity is temporarily questioned and how it is questioned, as well as what it could mean for the development of society  in the long term. 

Author Biography

Rudolf Stichweh, Universität Bonn

Rudolf Stichweh é Professor da Universität Bonn e coordenador do departamento Comparative Research on Democracies. Estudou sociologia e filosofia na FU Berlin e na Universidade de Bielefeld, onde fez o doutoramento.

Published

2020-09-23