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AP World History Mr. Ott @ BETA 2012-13

Aim: What is and When was MODERNITY ? Do Now: Answer in your notebook, What does it mean to you to be modern?. AP World History Mr. Ott @ BETA 2012-13. Industrialization. Rationalization. Modernity. Capitalism. Secularization. Post-Feudalism. Rejection of Tradition/History.

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AP World History Mr. Ott @ BETA 2012-13

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  1. Aim: What is and When was MODERNITY ?Do Now: Answer in your notebook, What does it mean to you to be modern? AP World HistoryMr. Ott @ BETA 2012-13

  2. Industrialization Rationalization Modernity Capitalism Secularization Post-Feudalism Rejection of Tradition/History Progress based on facts etc...

  3. Rationalization In sociology, rationalization refers to the replacement of traditions, values, and emotions as motivators for behavior in society with rational, calculated ones. Marx and Engels associated the emergence of modern society above all with the development of capitalism; for Durkheim it was connected in particular with industrialization and the new social division of labor which this brought about; for Weber it had to do with the emergence of a distinctive way of thinking, the rational calculation which he associated with the Protestant Ethic. — John Harriss The Second Great Transformation? Capitalism at the End of the Twentieth Century 1992

  4. The social conditions and experiences that are the effects of modernization. Technological, economic, social,geographic determinism, and political processes associated with the industrial revolution and its aftermath. Modernity

  5. Glasgow c 1880s Jacob Riis “How the Other Half Lives” (1890)

  6. Modernity was a term first used by 19th century French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire to denote the experience of living in the new modern world

  7. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions are swept awayAll that is solid melts into airKarl Marx “Communist Manifesto” (1848)

  8. Modernity: speed and change

  9. During the 1850s Baron Georges Eugene Haussmann undertook the huge transformation of Paris - making it ‘modern’. Demolished slums and traditional quarters of city (rejection of history an important part of modernism). Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, Paris, 1861-3

  10. The law of progress is immortal, just as progress itself is infinite Else Thalemann, Eiffel Tower 1930

  11. André Kertész, Shadows of the Eiffel Tower 1929

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