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Of the available conceptual definitions in sociology, modernity is "marked and defined by an obsession with 'evidence'," visual culture, and personal visibility (Leppert 2004, 19). Generally, the large-scale social integration constituting modernity, involves the: increased movement of goods, capital, people, and information among formerly discrete populations, and consequent influence beyond the local area increased formal social organization of mobile populaces, development of "circuits" on which they and their influence travel, and societal standardization conducive to socio-economic mobility increased specialization of the segments of society, i.e., division of labor, and area inter-dependency |
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