A new paradigm to understand today's world

A new Paradigm book to understand the world today by Alain Touraine, Arab Organization for Translation. The West described the social reality and represented it, in the early centuries of its modernization, with political terms such as chaos and order, monarchy and state, people and revolution, then the industrial revolution occurred, freeing capitalism from political authority, and thinking and working began, in the field of this authority, based on a new economic and social paradigm. There was also talk of classes, revolutions, social inequalities, and redistribution. Today, in the age of globalized economy and victorious individualism, globalization has shattered the patterns of old societies. As each of us has become a prisoner of the network of production and mass culture, we have struggled to escape from it and build ourselves, as active agents of our private lives. The new paradigm is a cultural paradigm, as evidenced by our era's major questions: What is the position of minorities? Does sexuality have a central place? Is it a time of religious resurgence? ... And as always with Alain Touraine, the keenness to give a theoretical formulation to our social practices enriches it, here, with life as it is lived, turning the ideas in this book into the most everyday experiences in the globalized world in which we are evolving. It is an extremely important reference.