01702nam a22001577a 4500 518471 518471 210924b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Walby, Sylvia 29506 Developing the concept of society: Institutional domains, regimes of inequalities and complex systems in a global era Current Sociology 69(3), May, 2021: p.315-332 This 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 Complex systems, Global, Institutions, Macro, Regimes, Social system, Social theory, Societalisation, Society 27675 Current Sociology SOCIAL SYSTEMS AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 392550 IIPA IIPA 2021-09-24 69(3), May, 2021: p.315-332 AR125615 2021-09-24 AR