HISA06H3 Lecture 1: LECTURE ONE Modernity.docx
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Modernity: characteristics of modern society, it begun with the decline of brutalism, and the initiation of industrialization, urbanizations, transportation, institutionalization, post modernization: For example: queen, kings, religious leaders were replaced by state leaders: complex structures of the modern nation state, the large-scale production and consumption of commodities for the market. How does this illustrate the modern life style: consumerism; people worship commodities, dynamic social and sexual division of labor, characterized by new class formations, the decline of the religious world view.