Modernization and Globalization

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Modernization and Globalization

• Into the Present and Future

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What are the characteristics of modernism?
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Industrialization

• Enlightenment Industrialization
  beginsIncluding migration from farms to cities
• Romantic Era Reaction against
  industrialization, especially urban life
• Victorian Era Issues include workers, womens
  and childrens rights, voting rights, focus on
  slums, urban issues, education
• Modern Era Equality between sexes, redefining
  the family, emphasis on education and
  technological issues including computers,
  communication, transportation, loss of factory
  jobs, convenience items

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Child labor in the mines. The Warder Collection.

Child labor in the mines. The Warder Collection.
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Globalization

• Renaissance developed cartography, navigation,
  ship building
• Age 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

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The British Empire
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Science Impacts Thought

• Anxiety caused by
• 1. Newtons theory (1684)
• 2. Darwins theory (1859)
• 3. Geological discoveries (Victorian Era)
• 4. Einsteins theory of relativity (1905)
• 5. Atomic Bomb (1945)

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Science Impacts Thought

• Newtonian
• Resolution
• Absolute time
• Cause and effect
• Predictability
• Clockwork reality
• Newtonian physics
• Solution
• Horizontal logic

• Einsteinian
• Unknown
• Relative Time
• Unknown Causes
• Mystery
• Hidden realities
• Quantum physics
• Uncertainty
• Connections

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Science Impacts Thought

• Modern Physics
• Einstein Certainties must be replaced by
  probabilities.
• Post-modern Physics
• Richard Feynman I think I can safely say that
  nobody understands quantum mechanics.
• Nuclear Capabilities
• Robert Jay Lifton There is . . . the specific
  suggestion of the end of our species, of
  something on the order of biological extinction.

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What are the characteristics of modernism?