De la difícil relación entre estado y sociedad. Problemas de coordinación, control y racionalidad social

Abstract

The complex relationship of State and society is discussed in reference to five areas: conceptual effects of the crisis; deficits in the modernizing processes; complexity of the social structure; loss of the State’s centrality; and contemporary societies’s risk syndromes. The author believes there is a new way of socially and subjectively experiencing time, expressed not only in the impossibility of creatin a rational, full, and coherent link between present and future, but also in the arrhythmia of economic, political, and specifically social processes. This is combined with a marked differentiation, which in the societal level appears as diversified and fragmented associations. Time, differentiation, arrhythmia, difficult calculation, consensus deficit: all these elements put the State in a situation in which its role as general coordinator becomes enormously complex and difficult, specially according to actual rational logic systems.