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Reviews some broad changes in European culture over the last hundred years. Suggests that the end of the voluntaristic or mobilizing state is approaching: all the controls exercised by the world of politics over the economy are being dismantled. However, this surge of liberalism does not prefigure the construction of another model of society - it is a sweeping-out phase. (Original abstract - amended)

In Eastern Europe demands for negative liberty overthrew regimes where the ground plan for democracy had been masked or cast aside by the ground plan for revolution. Examines the social conditions of freedom of choice and argues that it is time to go beyond the idea that democracy is the combination of individual interests and the general interest. More people are now demanding democracy based on personal rather than communal considerations. (SJK)

Argues that we must discover why and in what respects we are at one and the same time different from one another and involved in the same process of development. (SJO)

THE ESSAY EXAMINES THE BASIC PARADIGM AND PERSPECTIVE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AS A STUDY OF SOCIETY, WHERE SOCIETY IS CONCEIVED AS A FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM ORGANIZED AROUND VALUES & NORMS CREATING ORDER AND CIVILIZATION. THE AUTHOR REJECTS THIS CONCEPTION, AND ARGUES THAT THE SOCIAL SCIENCES MUST GIVE MORE ATTENTION TO SOCIAL CHANGE, SOCIAL MOBILIZATION & MOVEMENT, AND RECOMMENDS A NEW METHODOLOGY FOR THE APPROACH.