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?