ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author aims to point out how social inequality, social problems, and social deviance cannot be expected to decrease in a mono-ideal salvation culture. He contends that social stability can be maintained in a multiple ideal-labeling system, because alter-centered, interpersonal salvation and organic interdependence are possible only through the contraction of several ideal labels. The inner contradiction between social interdependence and the ego-centered salvation norms in a mono ideal-label system must inevitably produce contractual, guilt-debt relationships, and not reciprocity in terms of organic solidarity. The author then suggests that prevention of deviance in both systems can best be assessed during periods of social crisis. Three intertwined variables, differentiating between the monistic social contraction model and the dualistic ego-construction social perspective, are also discussed: the dimension of the interactive alter-centered versus ego-centered actualizing salvation, the dynamics of asymmetric versus symmetric exchange patterns, and the structural mono versus multiple ideal-labeling dimensions.
