LING 100 Lecture Notes - Halford Mackinder, Critical Geopolitics, Greater Somalia
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Definition: an interlocking set of social, economic, political and cultural processes and relationships associated with the european view of the modern society. This view was developing from the 17th century, and until the mid 20th century, it was widely regarded as a global norm to which all states would advance. The idea of modernity" situates people in time. It suggests that time is divided up into past, present and future. In each case the relationship between the past, present and future established by modernity is experienced by people and understood in terms of how it might change their lives for better or worse. Peoples" lives were to be transformed through a desire for modernization. One might say, modernization is a whole way of life. ". Modernization as progress : understanding modernization in terms of progress" suggests that society makes a clean break with a problematic past and does what is necessary to move forward into a better future.
