「エピローグ：現代において社会の変化を論じるということ」(Epilogue: gendai ni oite shakai no henka wo kataru to iukoto [Epilogue: discussing social change in the present age])

Social change theory has been a central concern of sociology and the social sciences, but is not a very popular field today. But this does not mean that social change theory is in decline, but that its nature is changing significantly from what it used to be. In particular, the expansion of social change theory inwards and outwards, This study examines the potential of social change theory in the contemporary era.