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The Sovereign Boundary

The Sovereign Boundary

Anthony Padgett

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Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2026
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Sociedad y ciencias sociales
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9781291671797
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Modern sociological orthodoxy is trapped within a paradigm of flattening. For over half a century, the dominant theoretical frameworks have celebrated the systematic dismantling of boundaries-geographic, institutional, cultural, and semantic-as the ultimate metric of human liberation. From the celebratory narratives of borderless globalism and decentralized networks to the post-modern critique of stable institutional hierarchies, the consensus has remained firm: to progress is to dissolve.The Sovereign Boundary: Sociology of Institutional and Cultural Differentiation challenges this foundational premise. It argues that the contemporary celebration of a fluid, borderless social landscape represents a profound civilizational pathology rather than an evolution. When a society strips away its vertical structures, it does not achieve true liberation. Instead, it enters a state of massification, where distinct individual agency and institutional integrity are completely ironed out into a horizontal expanse of absolute uniformity.

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