The Triangular Relations of Society, State, and Market in the Context of the Processes of Contestations Between Globalization and Decentralization: A Sociological Perspective

This paper gives a general description of the triangular relations between Society, State, and Market from a Sociological Perspective. Within the context of this triangular relations, a major challenge facing contemporary Indonesian Society will be explained, which is the social problem of Poverty and Social Exclusion. Before using the triangular relations between Society, State, and Market as a conceptual analytical tool for explaining poverty and social exclusion, there are several important caveats to be addressed. These important caveats are related to the relations between Nation-State, and Nationalism within the context of the processes of contestations between globalization and decentralization (democratization on the local level). The discourse on nation-state and nationalism within the contestations of globalization and decentralization in Indonesia is a highly significant social and political context if the major social problem of poverty and social exclusion can be explained and solved from a sociological perspective.  The paper is based on primary data using qualitative methodological approach and a specific case study from Indonesia.