1st Edition
Polarized Society Class Divisions in the New Culture Wars
1. Introduction: Material and symbolic struggles in a society divided in multiple ways 2. Cosmopolitanism versus communitarianism: Structural change in solidarity between global economic integration and national social integration 3. Right versus left, post-bourgeois versus old-bourgeois right, postmodern versus old-modern left 4. Education winners versus education losers: The struggle for educational qualifications and returns on education 5. Established versus outsiders: The distributional conflicts of identity politics 6. Ruling versus ruled classes and groups, cultural versus economic capital: From industrial middle-class society to post-industrial class and postmodern tribal society 7. The populist backlash in Europe: Revolt against the “out-of-touch” elites 8. The populist backlash in the United States: Donald Trump's challenge to “Democracy in America” in a Tocquevillian lense 9. Conclusion: Economic innovation and social cohesion between cosmopolitanism and communitarianism
Biography
Richard Münch is Senior Professor of Social Theory and Comparative Macrosociology at Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany, and Emeritus of Excellence at Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Germany.
