The paper tackles explanatory logic of the socio-spatial changes, by sociologist Zdravko Mlinar. Consistency of his dialectical approach, from the beginning of his scientific activity to the present day, is evidenced in better understanding of mechanisms and principles of the long-term developmental processes of globalisation. Zdravko Mlinar can be ranked, worldwide, among the founding researchers of the complexities of the socio-spatial globalisation. Although originating from marxist dialectics, Mlinar's empirical as well as abstract dialectics transcends explanatory horizons of the former. We believe that his combined dialectics of exclusion/permeation as well as convergence/polarization can be explained as a fusional examination of two sociological analytical axes or relations: structure/action and integration/ differentation. Organizational (relational) characteristics of globalising societies are being, in time and space, permeated with structural characteristics, relativizing and replacing the later. He does not understand functional dynamics of integration and diferentiation primarily as a mechanism for establishing equilibrium of social order, instead, he explaining it as a developmental potential of human agency. Globalisation as the highest level of the societalization of individual, collective and territorial actors, accompanied by a high level of their emancipation could represent an ideotypical "outcome" of long-term developmental social changes. Developmental paradigm as exemplified by Mlinar can be outlined as a synthetic bridge among different paradigmatic directions in sociology.
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