Monday, February 2, 2009

Modernization, Modernism, and Post Modernism

The social evolutionism theories talks about the idea of modernization dealing with the evolutionary model. It explains how each culture was evolved from barbarism reaching to its levels of growth and people. The citizens living in the modern states are considered to be wealthier and more authoritative as well as having a higher standard of living. The proponents of modernization perspective view the Western society to be very modern. To them it doesn’t matter if people have the same standard of living as the Western society, they will always see it as an inferior.

Modernism deals with a variety of cultural movements involving in the changes of Western culture in the late 19th and early 20th century. Modernism is the testing and destruction of a human understanding and experience of life. It also plays role in the movements in art, architecture, songs, writing, and etc.

"After the modernist movement" is the understanding of the word postmodernism. The word modern is associated with something dealing in the present. Therefore, the movements of modernism and the postmodernism reaction are known to be set of perspectives which are cultural and logical facts.

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