identity; alterity; globalization; democracy; postindustrial society; The hybrid (and, especially, fragmentabil, seemingly endlessly) of general responses and social science generalizante the operationalizarea philosophy through the concepts of identity and alterity are, in fact, concrete and concretizante through the sociology. Thus, the previous thematic snips are becoming much more comprehensible, operationalizabile, and instrumentalizabile through recourse to a specific sociological theme, namely globalization. Despite the image that globalization an advertisement in the collective imaginary, it means less a process of homogenizing world in terms of economy and technology and more of a global process of distribution and production systems of the capitalist system. Identity is linked to globalisation through several factors regarding both its cultural spectrum and ruling system which supports this spectrum. Democracy as a political system and culture, at least in the West, is one of the major factors of analysis, from a perspective that combines human rights with labour legislation and with the foreign policy of countries where democracy already keep tradition and cultural heritage. But what is the connection between democracy and globalization? To what extent the crisis of democracy can motivate through economic mechanisms of globalization and not by an asymmetry in the democratic legitimisation of the mechanism itself and the popular sovereignty? In order for a democracy to bear her own operating mechanisms, it needs a political community, a popular sovereignty which is governed. Democracy, meaning popular sovereignty, seems to achieve formal limits, although political momentum continues to stay, this time, however, exercised by the institutions of globalisation. The problem of alterity has a shade too metaphysical for what is needed at the moment. Identity is an issue that requires pregnant before any thoughts of otherness, even if the latter is the first, in the logical sense. Asserting their own identities take precedence before other recognition. The other has metamorphosed into something more and bigger than the individual next to us. Globalization has an oversize on a global scale, each action affecting it, while it affects us. The responsibility of our time lies in this task of thinking the world while we think and on us.
