BF190 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Orbital Inclination, Contrive, Tabula Rasa
27 Jan 2017
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Modernity; describes a historical period in social and cultural development in which traditional feudal relations give way to secularism, rationalism and capitalist economics. While we arguably live in a post-modern world, the structures and forces that characterize modernity continue to impact our lives on a daily basis: concepts such as modern democracy, modern science, and capitalism itself are clearly still with us. And while the origins of modernity can largely be traced to transformations in particular western european societies and cultures, modern concepts have indelibly structured the global society in which we now find ourselves. As such, understanding modernity is vital to understanding our place in the here and now. Secular(non-religious) forms of political power and authority and conceptions of sovereignty and legitimacy, operation within defined territorial boundaries, which are characteristics of the large, complex structures of the modern nation-state.
