By Dominic Sachsenmaier, Jens Riedel, Shmuel N Eisenstadt
This paintings explores an rising paradigm within the social sciences, which assumes culturally particular different types of modernity. Modernization is hence not equated with homogenization. students from background, sociology, sector reports, and economics talk about the concept's implications. the 1st half covers a number theoretical questions bobbing up from the hot method. matters corresponding to the typical gains of all modernities and their interrelation with neighborhood particularities, the explanations for antinomies of modernity, and the preconditions for a calm coexistence of cultures are raised. the second one and 3rd elements care for Europe and China as particular encounters with modernity, the tensions among universalism and cultural identities, either in previous and current. The fourth half analyzes how a number of Modernities interprets into formal and casual associations of "diverse capitalisms".
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Inglehart explains the parallelism of these changes with similar educational demands and living standards occurring in the shift from industrial societies to service-oriented economies. 8 For a discussion of Multiple Modernities and the transnationalization of identi ties and social structures, see Tambiah 2000. Multiple Modernities 15-08-2002 10:26 Pagina 45 45 order and constellation of identities9 makes a distinction between the West as a homogenous entity and an equally stereotypical “rest” even less meaningful.
Such con frontations developed within Europe with the crystallization of the modern European state system and became further intensified with Multiple Modernities 15-08-2002 10:26 Pagina 37 37 the crystallization of “world systems” from the sixteenth or seven teenth century on. 12 A fourth cause of change were the continual confrontations between interpretations promulgated by different centers and elites, and the concrete developments, conflicts, and displacements that accompa nied the institutionalization of these premises.
Such contradictions and tensions arise first between criteria rooted in rela tively small and particularistic settings and those derived from broad er ones, and second between the criteria derived from different — for instance, religious or political collectivities, each of which is populated by different social actors, especially by different elites and influencers, and coalitions thereof. The problems of the extension of trust and its generalizability exist in all societies. They become especially visible in more complex or differentiated societies in all of which develop special social mecha nisms to cope with them, with different degrees of success.