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PREYER, Gerhard  e  KRAUSSE, Reuss-Markus. Covid-19 as an Immune Event. Multiple Irritation Scenarios beyond Western Modernizations. Rev. mex. cienc. polít. soc [online]. 2021, vol.66, n.242, pp.63-84.  Epub 25-Out-2021. ISSN 0185-1918.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fcpys.2448492xe.2021.242.79327.

This contribution formulates theses on the ongoing interpretation of the self-irritation of societal communication and membership in social systems that are triggered by the observable pandemic. The article reconceptualizes immune events of societal communication from a sociological membership point of view. This is a feature of the continuation of the third research program of multiple modernities (Eisenstadt) in sociological theory. Based on the Covid-19 virus as an immune event, five theses are put forward that address relevant aspects of contemporary society. They concern: 1) the criticism of the traditional semantics of the concept of “crisis” and its replacement by the immune events of membership systems; 2) the global solution to the virus problem that cannot be expected and what follows from it; 3) the consequences of the different solutions of the virus problem, especially for Germany; 4) the struggle of nation-states regarding the availability of the vaccine; and 5) the consequence for the sociology of membership, as well as the function of protest communication. The conclusion and the outlook address fundamental problems that sociological theory should take into account. It is central to point out that without limited negations (immune events) social evolution cannot be restabilized.

Palavras-chave : multiple modernities; glocalization; COVID-19; contemporary sociology; self-observation; societal communication, membership sociology; membership order.

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