Manuel is a passionate, driven, and techsavvy AV technician, Globalization is the intensification of the role of various factors (economic, social, or cultural) in the formation of a single global market or markets without national barriers, creating equal legal conditions for all nations involved. As a particular stage of global relations, globalization emerged only a few years ago, but its formation has not yet concluded, even as we enter the third millennium. Society has only started paying significant attention to this process about 10 or 15 years ago. Due to the wide range of political perspectives and divisions in contemporary global research, there is no universally accepted definition of globalization.
Sociology, as a discipline, has been studying society and its various aspects since the age of the Enlightenment. Throughout this time, the political, economic, social, and cultural changes that have occurred have been observed and analyzed by sociology. These transitions have been referred to as modernity and globalization, although society has experienced other phases prior to these. This essay will focus on both the sociology of modernity and globalization, analyzing the differences between the two. A concept that exemplifies these differences (travellings) will also be explored.
Modernity is an innovation of the Christian Middle Ages. The term “modernis,” from modo (‘recently’ or ‘just now’), became a late Latin word, which followed hodiernus (from hodie ‘today’). It was first used as an antonym to antiquus in the late fifth century A.D. Modernitas (modern times) and moderm (‘men of today’) became widespread after the tenth century. Modernity is generally agreed upon as a period that occurred from the Enlightenment onwards and ended in the mid-20th century. The changes that took place were given various terms by the ‘founding fathers’ of sociology, who referred to it respectively as the transition from feudalism to capitalism, mechanical to organic solidarity, and traditional to modern society. A prominent sociologist, Anthony Giddens, has described it as the transition from agricultural to industrial society. Modernity is seen as a shift that occurred from the mid-17th century onwards, characterized by the movement of agricultural workers becoming mobile industrial urbanites. Despite the different terminology, modernity is a recognized stage in sociology. The modern world is marked by a rejection or resistance to tradition, a belief in progress, and faith in the power of human reason to achieve freedom, science, technology, and democracy. The nation-state is argued to be an institutional factor that promoted the acceleration and expansion of modern institutions, playing a significant role in modernity.
These sociologists focused on various aspects of modernity. Karl Marx considered capitalism to be endemic to modernity, while Weber discussed the iron cage of rationality, which resulted from the dehumanizing effects of the modern world’s overly rationalized social order. Emile Durkheim focused on the uncertainty, loss of direction, and the feeling of isolation that people experienced as a result of modernity. Traditional society was replaced, as the ties of family, kin, and neighborhood were disrupted by new mobilities and a lack of traditional regulation. He termed this collapse of moral order ‘anomie.’
It has been argued that modernity has come to an end and that the world organized according to modern societies has changed, leaving the ‘modern’ blueprint behind. This transition is known as globalization. The term ‘global’ is over 400 years old, although ‘globalization,’ ‘globalize,’ and ‘globalizing’ did not become popular terms until the 1960s. In 1962, The Spectator recognized that ‘globalization is indeed a staggering concept.’
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