High Modernity

From Geography

High Modernity

High modernity is a process that continues the proces of modernity. It continess on processes like rationality, urbanization and technological advance. Because of the accelerating changes, high modernity increases uncertainty.

High modernity caused a change between modernization and time and between modernization and space. The relationship between modernization and time has changed because modernity is institutionally reflexive. This means that the importance of time changed because people have the ability to be consciouss about their doing and thinking. One of the causes of this reflexivity is the de-traditionalisation of the society. Traditions become less important. The past is not honoured anymore and symbols have lost many in value. Peoples attitudes towards the past have been changed, now it is seen as nostalgia, heritages and sense of loss. For example: in history a divorce of the marriage was inappropriate and strange, but nowayads this view dissappeared and the number of divorces is rising. The relationship between modernization and space also changed. This is caused because social relations aren't necessary linked to local contexts anymore and because indefinite tracts of time-space can be rearticulated

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• Page created by Lieke Vogels- 16 october 2012