ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author converges upon a type of social order where change is constantly possible. A politicised lifestyle that proves non-threatening in a late modern society can certainly spread onto societies where community interdependence is higher and then make more radical experiments appear less threatening. Sociodiversity is much more than tolerance. It is active support in experimenting with social forms that minorities or weak strata wish to see in operation. Seen from this angle, sociodiversity is the acceleration of the slow, ‘natural’ processes of social differentiation. Sociodiversity should never become a dominant social project in itself but a platform of social experimentation. The much talked about fragmentation and juxtaposition of postmodernity and the controversial concept of ‘neotribalism’ were probably early intuitions on the potential of institutional sociality. Contrary to the polysemic relations of direct sociality, individuals in the mass society exist as monosemic beings via one facet at a time, often as consumers or users of sociotechnical systems.
