This article provides information about the Gidden’s theory of modernity: Recent social changes have led to debates over the very nature of the contemporary social world. There is a debate between those who continue to see contemporary society as a modern world and those who argue that a substantial change has taken place in recent… Continue reading Gidden’s Theory of Modernity – Explained!
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Salient Features of Modernity | Social Development
There are a number of features of modernity some of the salient features are discussed as follows: Time-space separation: With modernisation, time was standardised. In large part, social interaction does not take place at the same time and in the same place.
Decline of the Paradigm in Modernisation | Social Development
This article provides information about the decline of the paradigm in modernisation: The modernisation approach dominated the social science domain in the West and in several parts of the developing world for a decade and developed most between the late 1950s and the mid-1960s. Towards the end of the 1960s, however, it began to lose… Continue reading Decline of the Paradigm in Modernisation | Social Development