(Modern) Industrial society
- Industrial society
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In sociology, industrial society refers to a society driven by the use of technology to enable mass production, supporting a large population with a high capacity for division of labour. Such a struct ...
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- Modernity defined
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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 larg ...
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- Defining modernity
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PoliticallyPolitically, modernity's earliest phase starts with Niccolò Machiavelli's works which openly rejected the medieval and Aristotelian style of analyzing politics by comparison with ideas abo ...
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- Phases of modernity
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The history of modernity is construed in many ways. It is mainly aligned with the age of Enlightenment in the 18th century (also known as Age of Reason). Others have noted that its spread went so far ...
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- Related terms
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The term "modern" (Latin modernus from modo, "just now") dates from the 5th century, originally distinguishing the Christian era from the Pagan era. Cassiodorus appears to have been the first writer t ...
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- Modernity
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Modernity typically refers to a post-traditional, post-medieval historical period, one marked by the move from feudalism (or agrarianism) toward capitalism, industrialization, secularization, rational ...
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