Modernization and Globalization Into the Present and Future

What are the characteristics of modernism?

3 Important Causes of Modernism Industrialization Industrialization Globalization Globalization Scientific Progress Scientific Progress

Industrialization

Industrialization Enlightenment: Industrialization begins —Including migration from farms to cities Enlightenment: Industrialization begins —Including migration from farms to cities Romantic Era: Reaction against industrialization — especially urban life 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 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 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

Globalization Renaissance developed cartography, navigation, ship building Renaissance developed cartography, navigation, ship building Age of Exploration: 15 th – 17 th Centuries; routes of da Gama, Columbus, Magellan led to colonization Age of Exploration: 15 th – 17 th Centuries; routes of da Gama, Columbus, Magellan led to colonization Victorian Era: British Empire = largest world has ever seen Victorian Era: British Empire = largest world has ever seen Modern Era: World Wars, communication technologies, economic interdependence 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 NewtonianResolution Absolute time Cause and effect Predictability Clockwork reality Newtonian physics Solution Horizontal logic EinsteinianUnknown Relative Time Unknown Causes Mystery Hidden realities Quantum physics UncertaintyConnections

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.”

What are the characteristics of modernism?