Modernity

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Modernity
  1. When did sociology emerge
    1. Late 18th Century around the Enlightenment period.
      1. Philosophical movement of the 18th Century whereby reason and science could lead to human progress.
      2. Newby (1994) argues that sociology is concerned with the effects of twin revolutions; DEMOCRATIC (French (1789) and the American Revolution of 1776 which transformed political ideas.
        1. The industrial revolution in the late 18th Century also created a broad set of economic and social changes such as urbanisation, the growth of machine-based production and a division of labour between workers and capitalists
        2. What did these changes do
          1. Broke traditional ways of life and generated questions that were arguably answered by founding sociological fathers such as Durkheim, Marx and Weber.
          2. PRE MODERN SOCIETY
            1. Feudal economy system divided by land ownership, belief in myth and magic (i.e. witch craze of the 16th Century), extended family having economic and educative functions, simple social structure and ascribed identity.
            2. MODERN SOCIETY
              1. Capitalist economy with class based stratification sytem and machine based production processes, belief in reason/science and understanding the objective laws of society e.g. growth of secularisation, nuclear family has lost economic and educative functions due to structural differentiation (Parsons), compex social structure and achieved status.
              2. Durkheim - Division of Labour and Anomie
                1. Distinguished 2 types of social ordewr based on mechanical and organic solidaritary.
                  1. Pre-modern societies were more mechanical but as society developes, it becomes increasingly complex and this breaks down which leads to the division of labour.
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                    2. Weber - Rationality
                      1. Rationalism creates a rule based society.
                        1. His study of calvinism
                        2. Marx
                          1. Alienation, capitalism and exploitation.
                            1. Class conflict would inevitably lead to a revolution which can be exemplified today e.g. 2011 Summer Riots
                          2. Beck and Lau (2005)
                            1. By the 1960's society was in a high stage of modernity and the period is characterised by a strong belief is science and a nation state of institutions that are biologically interlined e.g. nuclear family. However revent sociologists argue that we are now beyond even high modernity referred to a post-modernity.
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