HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bourgeoisie, Radical Change, Meritocracy
27 Jul 2018
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Rapid and accelerating social, economic and technological change. The industrial, mechanized production of goods and the deep and wide penetration of commercialization into society as a whole. Struggles over political power by those claiming to have popular as opposed to divine sovereignty. States organized through mass mobilization and on the idea of the nation as a primary source of public loyalty. Bureaucratic and governmental interference in many areas of life. Tensions between science and religion, rationality and feeling. Tends to measure non-western progress against a specific western yardstick. There was no single path to modernity. Wherever and whenever the elements of modernity in the definition provided arose, they came into conflict with non-modern or alternative ways of organizing societies. Enlightenment is the promotion of the idea of change as a good thing and that human progress was possible and desirable.
