ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses what does all this tell about the structuration of the world through communicative connection? First, that key properties of global integration are usefully, maybe paradigmatically, displayed through attention to emergent globalities as features of a world in process. Second, that approaching the processes of structuration through the lens of communicative connectivity requires address to the systemic attributes of communication and also to the intersubjective nature of communicative interactions — to consciousness as a feature of globality. Third, that the systemness thus revealed is likely to be a more permissive, and less institutionalized, construct than key strands of social theory allow. Recourse to complexity science and other permissive frameworks for the analysis of social systems shows, in Margaret Archer's words, "that action and structure presuppose one another, structural patterning is inextricably grounded in practical interaction. Most definitions of globalization as process rely on connection to describe the extension of social relations across the planet.
