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The media printed and electronic play today a more central role .

The C ontours of H igh Modernity – focus on connection between sociology and modern institutions. An example – a devorce is a crisis in the individual personal life , which presents dangers to their security and sense of well-being .

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The media printed and electronic play today a more central role .

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  1. The Contours of High Modernity – focus on connectionbetweensociology and modern institutions An example – a devorce is a crisis in the individualpersonallife, which presents dangers to theirsecurity and sense of well-being. Also offers freshopportunities for selfdevelopment and future happiness. Goingthrough a phase of mourning, is the key to ”reclaimingoneself” afterdevorse, sicknessect…. You must reach back into the earlyexperience and find other images and roots for independence, for beingable to live alone and for undertaking the second chance.

  2. The media printed and electronicplaytoday a more central role. • The media gives os multiple choicesabouthow to lifeour lives, distinct from the previous periodes of history. • Personal meaninglessness – the feelingthatlife has nothingworthwhile to offer – becomes a fundamental psychic problem in circumstances of latemodernity

  3. Modernity – some general consederations. • Modernity = the industrualworld. • The pace of social changemuch faster than in any prior system. • Globalisation of social activity • Printing (mass media) newspaper, books • Electronic communication (television, radio ect.)

  4. The dynamiccharacter of modern social life. • Separation of time and space. (we all have a sense of the future, the present and the past) • Disembeddingmechanisms (symbolictokens ( monetaryextance of one form or another)and expert systems (technicalknowlegde) • Institutionalreflexivity (new information and knowledge)

  5. Science and technologyare double-edged, creating new parameters of risk and danger as well as offeringbeneficentpossibilities for humankind. • Weareliving in a riskyworld, wherewewillbeconfronted with our social existence.

  6. Whymodernity and personalidentity • Changes in personallife is directlytied to social connections of verywidescope. • Modernity breaks down the protectiveframework of the small community and of tradition, replacingthese with muchlargerimpersonal organisations.

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