Sociocultural Evolution and the Future of World Society |
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| Authors: | Christopher Chase-Dunn |
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| Affiliation: | Institute for Research on World-Systems, University of California , Riverside, California, USA |
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| Abstract: | World society has been emerging on a global scale, but the old world-system of multiple cultures continues to exist at the same time that a global culture is in formation. In this article the author discusses the relations among these forms of integration in the contemporary system, the coming dark age of deglobalization, and the potential for the eventual emergence of a collectively rational and democratic global commonwealth. |
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| Keywords: | Semiperipheral development sociocultural evolution world society |
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