Social pluralism shifts integration burden from lifeworlds to political citizenship.

Evidence

But the evidence for this more far-reaching statement is far from convincing. The growing pluralism of our societies is a matter of the multiplication of cultural forms of life and individual lifestyles; as a result, there is a general trend in large-scale societies for the burden of social integration to shift from the level of socialized lifeworlds to that of political citizenship, whereby integration via citizenship becomes detached from national, i.e. pre-political, ties. But if social cohesion must increasingly be secured at the more abstract level of citizenship, this functional imperative speaks all the more strongly in favour of mobilizing political opinion and will formation; the digital infrastructure would also be more or less favourable to such a development, but only on the condition that it is subjected to a corresponding regulation, which for the time being is lacking. — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 103

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the classical public-sphere thesis from the 1962 ‘Structural Transformation,’ now theorized at the level of citizenship integration rather than bourgeois sociability. — connects to: Pluralism shifts integration burden to politics, fueling populist backlash among the disadvantaged — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 77; Shared institutions, not cultural segments, drive plural-society dynamics.; Conflict between values is the raw material of political citizenship — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 683
• DEFINE: Contrasts ‘socialized lifeworlds’ vs ‘political citizenship’ as two levels at which social integration can be secured.

Related

• Pluralism shifts integration burden to politics, fueling populist backlash among the disadvantaged (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Shared institutions, not cultural segments, drive plural-society dynamics. #expands (0.82)
• Conflict between values is the raw material of political citizenship #expands (0.78) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 683