The writings of Weber and Taylor have some strong affinities. Both start from the anthropological idea that man evaluates his position in the world and constitutes the social world by values. Their analyses of values aim at an understanding of those intersubjective meanings that have constituted western modernity. But, at the same time, their anthropological starting point leads to different in...

In the early 1990s, as the Soviet system disintegrated and the three worlds of the post World War II era collapsed into one world, in political and corporate rhetoric this was the triumph not just of America and its allies, but of modern capitalism. This new world order was global and globalization was the driver of change. The selfassuredness of this narrative of change contrasted sharply with...

The paper attempts to investigate the historical origin, development and limitation of western modernity. It pursues why how modernity was developed from eighteen centuries twenties centuries. While discussing early chronological, sociological political developments it requires separation state religious autocracy establishment technology based industrial society. shaped countries traditional s...

The greatest charm of science fiction is not the artistic imagination, but the scientific imagination.Liu Cixin’s the Three-body Problem as a Chinese science fiction novel, reflected Chinese writer how to think science and technology and its possible future of mankind’s imagination. This novel contained “Deconstruction” Utopia, “Transcendence” dystopia and “Composited” Heterotopias, Which fully...

Technology made modernity possible. It has been the engine of modernity, shaping it and propelling it forward. The Renaissance was made possible by major fourteenthand fifteenth-century inventions like the mechanical clock, the full-rigged ship, fixed-viewpoint perspective, global maps, and the printing press. The emergence of industrial society in the eighteenth century was the result of an in...

Resumo: Este artigo analisa o conto brasileiro “Nos olhos do intruso”, de Rubens Figueiredo, e sua relação com a pós-modernidade. Por meio da temática duplo, observa-se comportamento protagonista identidade multifacetada. O aporte teórico trabalho é baseado nos estudos Harvey (2008), Hall (1986), Lyotard (2009), Rosset (2008) outros autores. Constata-se que estranheza causada pelo enredo as pol...

This study reports on New Zealand dairy farmers’ access to and use of information as mediated through conditions of risk and trust within the context of their interpersonal social networks. We located participants’ reports of their information use within their perceived environments of trust and risk, following Giddens’s [1990. The consequences of modernity. Polity Press, Stanford, CA] typology...