| Social Change and Modernity |
 | INTRODUCTION |
| • | 1. Social Change and Modernity |
 | 2. Theories of Social Change |
| 3. Theories of Modernity |
| • | 4. Notes on Tables |
| • | References |
| 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" |
| 1. The Analysis of Temporal Structures |
| 2. The Change in "Change" |
| • | 2.1. Time as the Action Period |
| 2.2 Historical Time |
| • | 2.2.1 The differentiation of temporal levels. |
| • | 2.2.2 The history-of-salvation model . |
| • | 2.2.3. Secularization as the structural transformation of the history of salvation. |
| 2.3. The Emergence of "Social Change" |
| • | 3. On the Current Situation of the Theory of Social Change |
| • | References |
| 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 |
| NAME INDEX |
| SUBJECT INDEX |