WHEN DOES THE MODERN BEGIN AND HAS IT ENDED?
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:08The article deals with the essence, genesis of the modern (the modern age, modernity) and the qualification of the present time on the basis of the earlier developed approach to the periodization of the World History, which includes the basic concepts: «stages of social evolution», «great transformations - evolutionary shifts» and «eras of domination». The modern age cannot be separated from modernization, which is interpreted as a complex of autonomous processes of bureaucratization, secularization, capitalist industrialization and democratization (R. Collins).