Theories Of Modernity Flashcards
Terms and Concepts
1
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Who was the one to coin the term Modernity?
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Anthony Giddens
2
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Late Modernity origins
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Theory that came after the Renaissance, Reasoning, and Government
3
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Modern world as a Juggernaut
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Unstoppable machine that goes out of control
4
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Institutions in Late Modernity
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- Capitalism
- Industrialism
- Surveillance
- Military Power
5
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Time-space Disembeddness
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Lines of Global and local are blurred due to restrictions of time and space
6
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Post-traditional Culture
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- No longer influenced by modern traditions
- We lose power of traditions, where individuals becomes the agency for responsibility
- We think about for ourselves and to see how our lives turn out to be
7
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Trust
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N/A
8
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Reflexivity
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We shape who we are and had to think about the choices we make that leads to the obsession with our bodies to subject the various regimes.
9
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Rationalism
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Jorgensen Habermas believes modern world are based on rationalizing and reason, to which he does not believe in the critical of Modernity
10
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Modes of Rationality
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- Instrumental Rationality are to gather data and certain truth
- Moral-Practical shapes to understand fundamental rights and wrongs in our society
- Communicative are the ability to share our ideas from generations to the next, to which Democratic expression is born
- Aesthetic-expressive informs taste and presentation
