As we know, we all are living in the modern society in today's world. ... In the first place, family pattern has huge difference between traditional and modern society. ... In today's world, the modern "nuclear" family has been replaced to the traditional family. ... Modern parents now share this responsibility together because of social and work constraints. ... In modern society, more and more people realize that education is the best way to improve their live. ...

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In this modern era of information, the internet has been opening up a world of opportunities to any with the resources and know-how to take advantage of it. ... It also brought a new technology that mechanized production and replaced human or animal energy with steam. ... The advent and development of new technologies has created a forum for public debate over the merits of representative democracy vs. direct democracy. New technologies are enabling us to experiment with a system of direct democracy, which has for so long been unable to compete with proportional representation due to reasons...

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Men and women had very clearly defined roles, much more so than in today's modern families where decisions are often made together and roles are discussed openly. ... Therefore, for my own personal reasons, and the happiness it has brought to me and my mother, I am grateful for the benefits that modern social values have brought to society . ... The internet as a modern invention has also continued to provide a major means of causing social and political change in countries such as India. ...

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Friedrich Neitzsche describes the faith of modern humanity as follows: "Modern men, with their obtuseness to all Christian nomenclature, no longer sense the gruesome superlative which lay for an antique taste in the paradoxical formula `God on the cross`." ... It is this technology and computerization which will be the topic for the final part of this essay. Technology is a loose term that people apply to any modern advancement. ... This indicates that technology is basically the science of fabricating goods and materials. ... The ideals and values of their community seem ancient and foreign w...

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The future of the nation's depends on the power of science and technology they have. Technology is the result of scientific knowledge and sources. ... Universities are trying to improve their level of science and technology. ... The autonomy of the establishment is not enough to occur modern thinking. ... In order to do that, rich libraries and laboratories which have modern equipment are necessary. ...

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The society I chose that is isolated from modern developments and advancement are the Kayapo Indians. ... Unfortunately for many of these isolated Indian tribes of Brazil their natural resources such as logging, mining and exotic species of plants and animals have been sought out by the modern world. Coming in contact with modern society have been threatening there way of life, culture and traditions. ... Technology has to be invented or adopted. ... Technology not only has to be adopted; it also has to be maintained. ...

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" (9) Kasson identifies that the people of the 20th century were using Coney Island as a way to revolt against the prior culture and establish a new modern culture in America. Coney Island undeniably ushered in multiple social changes in the US landscape and in large reflected the emerging modern society that was taking over the genteel culture of old. One major change that helped usher in a new culture in America was the rapid change in technology. ... Coney helped Americans establish a modern social scene that was not nearly as constricted by genteel norms of the past. ... Coney manage...

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Postmodernism is hard to define because it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of areas of study such as art, architecture, music, film, literature, sociology, communications, technology, and politics. ... The ways that modern societies go about creating categories labeled as order or disorder have to do with the effort to achieve stability. ... Specifically, the use of electronic computer technologies has revolutionized the knowledge production, distribution, and consumption in our society. ... Such large matters are what politics are all about, and it seems likely that concerns...

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The interplay between fatality, technology, and capitalism is an essential reason an individual becomes willing to die for their own country. ... Anderson uses the modern and traditional types of rule. He describes modern nations as horizontally bounded and persistent through time. ... In answering the question of why people die for their nations, Anderson believes "the essential thing is the interplay between fatality, technology, and capitalism" (Anderson, 43). ... Technology refers to the advent and subsequent advancement of the printing press. ...

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Weber predicted that in modern society there would be a shift in people's motivation. ... Bureaucratic coordination of human action, Weber believed, was a distinctive mark of modern social structures. ... Bureaucracy provided efficient means to motivate the advancement of technologies, due to the fact that they benefited as society benefited. Without technology, societies could not have reached the heights they reach today, however, they will continue to grow and surpass themselves. ... Clans, for example, did not rely on external social organizations, as do modern societies. ...

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In an era where everything is constantly becoming more intertwined with technology, the rituals of our daily lives follow this very trend. Whether it is something as simple as online banking or as complex as using technology as a mechanism to resist and express one's beliefs, the modern era of technology is continuing to expand society's possibilities. ... The questions that arise from this new modern age of political protests are endless, but there are several that should be considered. ... Putting his life and freedom in danger to resist complicity remains very aligned with the pri...

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And the technology was assisting the business to form a new market in economic system (Weber 2005, pp. 194-208). ... Finally, according to modernity, both of the sociologist have perspectives on modernity that is the shift to modern society. According to Durkheim's point of view, in modern society, he focus on the organic solidarity, freedom and independency. ... On the other hand, the technology is all over the world and some scientists are trying to do innovation. Individuals are have internet and some high technology things, they would choose stay at home instead of going out t...

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The whole city is equipped with high technology, so on and so forth. ... In most western developed countries, there are well-known modern cities. ... The consequence may be highly developed cities with advanced high technology but without history. ... There is a point of view that our modern cities should have distinguishing features and competitive ability. ... City is the center of politics, economy, science, technology, culture, education and etc. ...

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Foucault focuses on how the panopticon represents the way in which discipline and punishment work in past and modern society. Galloway describes it as a diagram and as a technology. ... His understanding of technology moves from common cultural interpretations to the Internet networks. ... Nonetheless, one still cannot put a finger on Galloway's connection between technology and panopticism. ... It leaves one wondering what kind of purpose does the complex structure of technology serve....

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This particular technology dehumanizes us and reduces the level and amount of authentic relationships with fellow human beings. ... The spirit of abstraction becomes perpetuated by these technologies. ... These technologies also factures us, for there is no guidelines for behavior, thus no rules to reaffirm the self, a pheno! ... In modern times we have become increasingly obsessed with the artifacts and material objects that surround us then the people that surround us. ... The word "human being" places on emphasis on "being" than having, but in our modern culture it seems we are becoming "...

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Therefore, these technological advances and innovations led directly to Europe's rise to capitalism in modern times. White supports his theory by way of technological determinism, or the claim that new technology is the primary cause of change, regardless of where the technology came from. ... As a result, he is unable to see that much of the technology that supposedly led to Europe's rise to power can be found in other parts of the world long before it shows up in Europe. ... While innovations in technology are important in changing a society they are only building blocks that le...

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Cultural and Psychological theories of self/identity have differing views and have been vigorously debated by theorists because theorists believe that "Old identities, which stabilized the social world for so long, are in decline, giving rise to new identities and fragmenting the modern individual as a unified subject. This so-called 'crisis of identity' is seen as part of a wider process of change which is dislocating the central structures and processes of modern societies and undermining the frameworks which gave individuals stable anchorage in the social world'. ... Psycholo...

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Modern way of life has nothing in common with the traditional one. ... To be able to examine these changes, one has to juxtapose traditional and modern way of life. ... In modern economies everything is based on industrial mass production and white-collar jobs have increased. ... In modern societies government is done indirectly and people have little participation in decision making. ... Moreover, traditional societies had limited technology, both in the production of food and in medicine, which caused shortages in the food supply and kept medicine incapable in dealing with most diseases. ...

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Crashed by powerful Western values and technology in an increasing globalized world, a modern China cannot keep practicing the rigid doctrine taught by Confucius, a philosopher lived in more than two thousand year ago, but to think independently. First, individual independence is the theme of this modern world, which Confucianism failed to adapt to. According to Chen Duxiu, modern life is based on economic, which is the result of individual independence. ... Although Western values are infamous for their excessive materialism, we need to adopt the Western scientific methods, which are the main...

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Over this extended period of time we are able to see the changes, both good and bad, which come with the modern era. ... A main component of this is the growth of technology and modernization. ... Previously, Allende had switched the roles and brought technology to Tres Marinas. ... She views the modern, civilized mindset as wrong in the sense that it values the wrong things and has strayed too far from traditional ideals. ... The House of the Spirits provides new perspectives on the way we view progress, especially in its relationship to technology and modernization. ...

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In a world of constant change and development, it is rare to come across a civilization that still operates in the same fashion as it once did in what is commonly named the "pre-technology" age. ... Spawning from this practice of loose time keeping is a Ladakhi phenomenon: "In traditional Ladakh, aggression of any sort is exceptionally rare the feeling that peace is better than conflict is so deeply ingrained that people turn automatically to a third party." (47) This is surely in opposition to the modern Western world, where citizens want the most for their time and most will stop at nothi...

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One would tend to categorize her work with the eco-feminists of the radical mode, Vandana Shiva (1988) critiques modern science and technology as a western, patriarchal and colonial project, which is inherently violent and perpetuates this violence against women and nature. ... Women's special knowledge of nature and their dependence on it for "staying alive"", were systematically marginalized under the onslaught of modern science. ... She rebukes Shiva for branding modern science as western, inherently masculine (therefore destructive)and just another social construct. ... The gap betwee...

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Thompson reveals how social media creates the image of a small-town life within modern city life ,in which, Thompson writes about how social media allows people to discover who they really are whether social media is beneficial to their lives or not. ... With a large variety of social media users on Social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more, have allowed modern day society to return back to historical times because of the development of microblogging (Thompson 591). ... A lot of this is just social norms catching with what technology is capable of." ... Social media has ...

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Some of these factors as seen on the national level include low per-capita income, as expressed by low GDP per capita, highly unequal distribution of income, poor infrastructure, lack of availability of modern technologies, and low consumption of efficient energy sources. ... The modernization theory of development states that in order for an LDC to achieve social and economic development they must first adopt the ideas and cultures similar to the ones in the modern or western world. ... After adopting and instituting the cultural values it is necessary to create the social and economic inst...

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Never before has technology and the World Wide Web combined been this prevalent in society, so prevalent that it has become a part of our everyday lives, Social Media and networking as a whole is the one particular link connecting all of modern technology, is this a bad thing or a good thing? ... Sure, we have the occasional negative outcome because of social media, or the obsessive use of technology in general, but look at how many lives have been saved through the rapid spread of information, and the support for fundraisers and other causes helping to find lost children, pets, and even raise...

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