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| Question | Answer |
| Mobile Sensibility | A key element of modernization. The psychological ability or mindset needed to adapt to new aspects of a person's environment and/or "incorporate new demands upon himself that arise outside of his habitual experience" -Modernizing Styles of Life: A Theory, Daniel Lerner |
| Projection | A facet of empathy and a needed mechanism of mobile sensibility. The act of mentally projecting positive facets of the self onto an external object results in positive identification. Additionally, Distantiation occurs when negative facets of the self are projected onto an external object, resulting in negative identification |
| Introjection | A facet of empathy and a needed mechanism of mobile personality. The opposite of projection, when facets of an external object are projected onto the self. "Others are 'incorporated' because I am like them or want to be like them" -Daniel Lerner, "The Passing of Traditional Society" pg 49 |
| Empathy | An important mechanism behind mobile sensibility and, therefore, a socially mobile, modern/modernizing society. Empathy allows for a greater level of social change because it opens up individual participants to joining others social groups and changing their social statuses. It allows "newly mobile persons to operate efficiently in a changing world." Lerner 49-50 |
| National Consensus | In a modern society, members must agree with public opinion through political participation enough for the national society to function and be commonly governed. Examples of this consensus are: common schooling, use of newspapers, payment and purchase power through cash |
| Movies/media as teachers | Movies and media simplified perception while greatly complicating response. They have also created the first real global human opinion in history |
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