modenhets
Modenhets is a sociological term that refers to the state of being modern and the processes that produce modern societies. The concept is closely linked to the notion of modernity, which emerged in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in response to the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution, and the beginnings of the industrial revolution. In theory, modenhets encompasses a range of changes, including the shift from agrarian economies to industrial and postindustrial economies, the development of bureaucratic and rational administrative structures, the rise of secular worldviews and the erosion of traditional authority, and the diffusion of mass media and information technologies.
Modernity is often analyzed through a series of key transformations. The first is the “technological turn,”
In critical debates, scholars sometimes argue that modenhets creates new forms of alienation or erosion of