Social change and "neo"-corporatism: notes on the growing contradictions between logistics (Unterbau) and logics (Überbau)
In: Sozialer Wandel in Westeuropa: Verhandlungen des 19. Deutschen Soziologentages in Berlin 1979, S. 423-442
"First, a relative decline of the authoritative component and the rise of a pragmatic-improvisatory component may be observed in the allocation of social values. Secondly and related to the first point: contradictions between the symbolic logics of interest representation on different levels of aggregation become institutionalized. Third, - and following from our second point - contradictions between the material logistics of resource interdependence (Unterbau) vis a vis the symbolic logics of interest representation (Überbau) will be one of the more intriguing consequences for the political-economic order as a whole. These consequences are serious enough to qualify them as social change of the existing order. One, admittedly too rudimentary normative remark on a democratically inspired countermove, rounds off the essay." (author's abstract)