Modern organizations routinely connect local and global, affecting millions of lives
Evidence
Modern organisations are able to connect the local and the global in ways which would have been unthinkable in more traditional societies and in so doing routinely affect the lives of many millions of people. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 59
Categorization
- XREF: Directly parallels Stevens’s position at Darlington Hall: a provincial English manor institutionally enmeshed in global (Nazi-era) affairs. — connects to: Modernity transforms both global interconnection and the most intimate personal life — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 24; Modernity’s globalising tendencies connect individuals to large-scale systems — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 409; Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 166 (+2 more)
Related
- Modernity’s globalising tendencies connect individuals to large-scale systems (similarity 0.86)
- Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them (similarity 0.86)
- Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface (similarity 0.86)
- Modernity transforms both global interconnection and the most intimate personal life (similarity 0.85)
- Modern place is a local expression of distant, disembedded relations (similarity 0.79)
- Global modern institutions depend on pooled shared knowledge via news (similarity 0.79)
- Local place-based relations gave pre-modern communities solidity (similarity 0.78)
- Microsocial interactions have risen to structural equivalence with macroscopic global phenomena. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Modernity’s globalising tendencies connect individuals to large-scale systems
#corroborates(0.85) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 409 - Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface
#expands(0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 166 - Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them
#expands(0.60) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 341 - Microscopic everyday interactions are the threads that bind society.
#qualifies(0.55) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 47