「世界システム」の構造転換

抄録

The purpose of this paper is to point out the direction of the undergoing restructuring process of postwar world-system from the standpoint of trichotomy approach to social systems, whose working hypothesis is that any social system can be characterized in terms of the constituting principles used, on the assumption that the available ones are limited to the individualistic, the hierarchistic, or the communalistic. Upon the observation that the communalistic principle is increasingly being used in various fields of the contemporary individualisitic society, e.g., in the welfare state, in the collective security treaty, in the subcontracting among the firms, in the industrial policy, in the foreign aids, etc., and upon the recognition that the contemporary worldwide problems concerning environment, population, resources, etc., can not be resolved without using the communalistic principle fully, it is asserted that the world is now proceeding to the fundamentally new world-system constituted by the communalistic principle, and that the increase of the cross-linking networks in various fields must pave the way toward it.