Society transformation
Social transformation (also known as "Transformation Studies") is the name given to interdisciplinary research and study programs that deal with change processes with different focuses.
The Leibniz University Hannover about combining classical disciplines such as English Studies / American studies , history, sociology / cultural anthropology and religious studies with a regional focus on Africa and Latin America / Caribbean . A research and book project by the Brandenburg-Berlin Institute for Social Science Studies from 2009 dealt with social transformation as the dominant type of social change in the 21st century and served to reorient the theory of social change.
Another focus can be found at the Marburg Education and Study Center. Under the term “social transformation”, processes of change are looked at from theological, sociological and mission science aspects. Based on the biblical understanding of salvation, the transformation of society here deals not only with the spiritual but also with the physical-material, psychological and social dimensions of human coexistence.
The 42nd World Economic Forum (WEF) met from January 25 to 29, 2012 in Davos under the motto: "The great transformation: Designing new models".
literature
- Volker Brecht , Tobias Faix and Johannes Reimer (eds.): Changing the world. Basic questions of a theology of transformation . Series: Transformation Studies, Volume 2. Francke, Marburg 2009.
- Rolf Reissig: Social Transformation in the 21st Century. A new concept of social change . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009.
- dpa / nd January 26, 2012. Forum of the elites . New Germany. Page 9.