NEW LINES OF CONFLICT DUE TO STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN SOCIETY
Andreas Reckwitz is a German sociologist and cultural scientist. He is Professor of Comparative Cultural Sociology at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder.
Conversation and moderation: Isolde Charim, author and philosopher.
The emergence of post-industrial society is essentially determined by the change in the middle class. This is drifting apart into three parts: a new middle class, an old middle class and a new underclass. This structural change in society is giving rise to new lines of conflict. However, the victims of this epochal upheaval are the social democratic parties. Will they survive this political paradigm shift?
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