{"id":2596,"date":"2018-11-07T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/news\/andreas-reckwitz-das-band-zerreisst"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:30:30","slug":"andreas-reckwitz-tears-the-ribbon","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/andreas-reckwitz-das-band-zerreisst","title":{"rendered":"ANDREAS RECKWITZ: THE RIBBON IS BREAKING"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANDREAS RECKWITZ: 
THE RIBBON TEARS<\/h1>\n

New lines of conflict due to social structural change<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n

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?<\/p>\n

\"Andreas<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andreas Reckwitz<\/strong> is a German sociologist and cultural scientist. He is Professor of Comparative Cultural Sociology at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder. 
His book Die Gesellschaft der Singularit\u00e4ten was nominated for the 2018 Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the non-fiction\/essay category and received the Bavarian Book Prize in the non-fiction category in 2017.<\/p>\n

On 8 November 2018<\/a> he presents his new book in our DEMOCRACY RELOADED series. Talk and moderation: Isolde Charim<\/strong>, author and philosopher.<\/p>\n

In co-operation with the BOOK VIENNA 18<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2597,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"news-kategrie":[48],"class_list":["post-2596","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-kategrie-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nANDREAS RECKWITZ: DAS BAND ZERREISST - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/andreas-reckwitz-tears-the-ribbon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ANDREAS RECKWITZ: DAS BAND ZERREISST - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ANDREAS RECKWITZ: DAS BAND ZERREISST Neue Konfliktlinien durch gesellschaftlichen Strukturwandel Die Entstehung der postindustriellen Gesellschaft ist wesentlich durch die Veränderung der Mittelschicht bestimmt. 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