Modernity’s globalising tendencies connect individuals to large-scale systems
Evidence
Modernity is inherently globalising, and the unsettling consequences of this phenomenon combine with the circularity of its reflexive character to form a universe of events in which risk and hazard take on a novel character. The globalising tendencies of modernity are simultaneously extensional and intensional—they connect individuals to large-scale systems as part of complex dialectics of change at both local and global poles. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 409
Categorization
- XREF: Directly the reader’s core term: ‘faceless commitments’ are exactly the connection of individuals to large-scale abstract systems the passage names as extensional/intensional globalising links. — connects to: Modernity transforms both global interconnection and the most intimate personal life — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 24; Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 166; Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 341 (+13 more)
Related
- Modernity transforms both global interconnection and the most intimate personal life (similarity 0.88)
- Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface (similarity 0.88)
- Modern organizations routinely connect local and global, affecting millions of lives (similarity 0.86)
- Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them (similarity 0.85)
- Large-scale systems enable rather than merely threaten individual self-actualisation (similarity 0.82)
- Uprooting and statelessness define modern global society (similarity 0.82)
- Global interconnectedness made total rejection of modernization untenable. (similarity 0.79)
- Modern place is a local expression of distant, disembedded relations (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface
#expands(0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 166 - Modernity transforms both global interconnection and the most intimate personal life
#expands(0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 24 - Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them
#expands(0.60) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 341