Commentary Modernity
Commentary Modernity
- Author
- Volker H Schmidt, National University of Singapore
- DOI
- 10.1177/205684601142
The article outlines Eisenstadt’s multiple modernities approach for the analysis of modern society. Following a conceptual part explicating the term’s meaning and distancing the approach from the sociological tradition as well as from classical modernization theory, it discusses some of the challenges presented by contemporary globalization processes.