01607nam a22001217a 4500008004100000100001900041245012200060260002400182300003200206520111000238650011401348773002301462210924b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aWalby, Sylvia   aDeveloping the concept of society: Institutional domains, regimes of inequalities and complex systems in a global era  aCurrent Sociology    a69(3), May, 2021: p.315-332  aThis article develops the concept of society to meet the challenge of cross-border and global processes. Global processes have made visible the inadequacy of interpreting the concept of society as if it were a nation-state, since there is a lack of congruence of institutional domains (economy, polity, civil society, violence) and regimes of inequality (class, gender, ethnicity). The article engages with two strands of intellectual heritage in sociological analysis of society as a macro concept: the differentiation of institutions and the relations of inequality. The concepts of society and societalisation are developed by hybridising these two approaches rather than selecting only one or the other. To achieve this, the concept of system is developed by drawing on complexity science. This enables the simultaneous analysis of differentiated institutional domains (economy, polity, violence, civil society) and multiple regimes of inequality without reductionism. In turn, this facilitates the fluent theorisation of variations in the temporal and spatial reach of social systems. – Reproduced   aComplex systems, Global, Institutions, Macro, Regimes, Social system, Social theory, Societalisation, Society  aCurrent Sociology