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Modernization and Globalization
Into the Present and Future
What are the characteristics of modernism?
3 Important Causes of Modernism
IndustrializationGlobalization
Scientific Progress
Industrialization
Industrialization Enlightenment: Industrialization begins —Including
migration from farms to cities Romantic Era: Reaction against industrialization —
especially urban life Victorian Era: Reforming Industrialization – issues
include workers’, womens’ and children’s rights, voting rights, focus on slums, urban issues, education
Modern Era: Refining Industrialization – equality between sexes, redefining the “family”, emphasis on education and technological issues including computers, communication, transportation, loss of factory jobs, convenience items
Child labor in the mines. The Warder Collection.
Child labor in the mines. The Warder Collection.
Imperialism and Globalization
GlobalizationRenaissance developed cartography,
navigation, ship buildingAge of Exploration: 15th – 17th Centuries;
routes of da Gama, Columbus, Magellan led to colonization
Victorian Era: British Empire = largest world has ever seen
Modern Era: World Wars, communication technologies, economic interdependence
The British Empire
Paranoia and Disconnectedness
Science Impacts Thought
Anxiety caused by 1. Newton’s theory (1684) 2. Darwin’s theory (1859)3. Geological discoveries (Victorian Era)4. Einstein’s theory of relativity (1905)5. Atomic Bomb (1945)
Science Impacts Thought
Newtonian ResolutionAbsolute timeCause and effectPredictabilityClockwork realityNewtonian physicsSolution Horizontal logic
EinsteinianUnknownRelative TimeUnknown CausesMysteryHidden realitiesQuantum physicsUncertaintyConnections
Science Impacts Thought
Modern PhysicsEinstein: “Certainties must be replaced by probabilities.”
Post-modern PhysicsRichard Feynman: “I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.”
Nuclear CapabilitiesRobert Jay Lifton: “There is . . . the specific suggestion of the end of our species, of something on the order of biological extinction.”
What are the characteristics of modernism?