ABSTRACT
In Chapter 7 I shall argue that major structural cleavages, resulting from a process of divergence between industrialised societies of European origins, can be understood in terms of the emergence, over long periods of time, of collectivist or privatist social structures. Before looking at this, however, I will develop in Chapter 6, a framework for understanding the dynamics underlying the process of divergence at a more general level. In particular, I want to examine the relationship between ideology, social structure and the state.
