GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Profit Motive, Scientific Revolution
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An inter-disciplinary understanding of different dimensions of our present condition. One"s view of current state of the world is informed by ones perspective on things. The protestant reformation 16th-17th c. ce. Democratic and socialist revolutionary crises 18th-20th c. ce. The industrial revolutions 18th-19th c. ce. Colonialism 15th-? c. ce: equalitarian ethos, individuals and society as a social contract, bureaucratically administered states, mechanization, urbanization, mobility. The idea and doctrine of progress: linear concept of time and human advancement. Development of a secular outlook: separation of politics and religion, privatization of faith and belief. Primacy of efficiency and calculation: accountability and profit motive. Does globalization mark the end of modernity: the project of modernity 1450-1989. Is it more of the same, i. e. the continuation of the (cid:498)unfinished project of modernity(cid:499): the logic of modernity on a global scale. Globalization refers to a set of external, material social processes that appear to be changing our modern world into a new social condition.
