radicalized modernity

radicalized modernity

1. institutional developments rather than epistemological pluralism account for a sense of fragmentation in the late modern world;
2. tendencies to integration and disintegration are both evident in the process of GLOBALIZATION OF CULTURE;
3. the self is not dissolved or dismembered – rather possibilities for reflexive self-identity are enhanced;
4. the pressing nature of global problems underpins truth claims;
5. empowerment and appropriation are features of modern society, not merely powerlessness;
6. post-modernity might be used to refer to movement beyond the institutions of modernity.