ABSTRACT

David Lockwood's distinction between System Integration and Social Integration is brought together with the Morphogenetic Approach (M/M) to account for the current societal fragmentation experienced globally. The generative mechanism from c. 1980 accounting for this tendency is the growing synergy developing between globalized capitalism (its profitability) and innovations in digital science (its diffusion). The two pulled the social order in different directions. Macroscopically, political parties transformed into ‘politics without conviction', bureaucracy into anormative social regulation and social institutions became subject to governance by ‘performance indicators'. At the micro­-level, social media fostered expressive reactions and a short-termist ‘presentism' rather than social movements. The outcome of synergy both reduced System and Social Integration. The contingent pandemic increased misery without affecting the generative mechanism, precluding a return to any earlier ‘normal’ more morphostatic state.

摘要

David Lockwood 对系统整合和社会整合的区分与形态发生方法 (M/M) 结合在一起，以解释当前全球经历的社会碎片化。来自 c 的生成机制。1980 年对这一趋势的解释是全球化资本主义（其盈利能力）与数字科学创新（其传播）之间日益增长的协同作用。两人将社会秩序拉向不同的方向。宏观上，政党转变为“没有信念的政治”，官僚主义转变为规范的社会规范，社会制度转变为“绩效指标”治理。在微观层面上，社交媒体促进了表达性的反应和短期主义的“呈现主义”，而不是社会运动。协同作用的结果既减少了系统整合，也减少了社会整合。偶然的大流行在不影响生成机制的情况下增加了痛苦，阻止了恢复到任何更早的“正常”更稳定的状态。