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Question
Elucidate the phenomena of modernity.
Solution
- ‘Modernity’ assumes that local ties and parochial perspectives give way to universal commitments and cosmopolitan attitudes;
- that the truths of utility, calculation, and science take precedence over those of the emotions, the sacred, and the non-rational;
- that the individual rather than the group be the primary unit of society and politics;
- that the associations in which men live and work be based on choice not birth;
- that mastery rather than fatalism orient their attitude toward the material and human environment;
- that identity be chosen and achieved, not ascribed and affirmed;
- that work be separated from family, residence, and community in bureaucratic organisation.
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