Modernity transforms both global interconnection and the most intimate personal life

Evidence

The modes of life brought into being by modernity have swept us away from all traditional types of social order, in quite unprecedented fashion. In both their extensionality and their intensionality the transformations involved in modernity are more profound than most sorts of change characteristic of prior periods. On the extensional plane they have served to establish forms of social interconnection which span the globe; in intensional terms they have come to alter some of the most intimate and personal features of our day-to-day existence. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 24

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines extensional vs. intensional transformation — a key Giddens distinction useful when mapping Stevens’s internal/intimate world against the global forces (nazism, empire) he serves.
• XREF: connects to: Modernity’s globalising tendencies connect individuals to large-scale systems — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 409; Modernity does not replace intimacy with impersonality but transforms it through distancing — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 343; Modern communications technology has fundamentally reshaped human consciousness and social relations (+12 more)

Related

• Modernity does not replace intimacy with impersonality but transforms it through distancing (similarity 0.88)
• Modernity’s globalising tendencies connect individuals to large-scale systems (similarity 0.88)
• Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them (similarity 0.87)
• Modern place is a local expression of distant, disembedded relations (similarity 0.86)
• Modern organizations routinely connect local and global, affecting millions of lives (similarity 0.85)
• Impersonal modern systems paradoxically enable reembedding of local personal life (similarity 0.83)
• Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface (similarity 0.82)
• Modernity transforms the stranger from a whole suspect person into a fleeting contact. (similarity 0.82)
• Three mechanisms drive modernity’s dynamism and process of time-space distanciation (similarity 0.80)
• Industrialism’s communication technologies shaped humanity’s global self-awareness (similarity 0.80)
• Mechanised communication is the bedrock of modern cultural globalisation (similarity 0.80)
• Self-fulfilment can positively appropriate globalised influences rather than retreat (similarity 0.80)
• Local place-based relations gave pre-modern communities solidity (similarity 0.80)
• Uprooting and statelessness define modern global society (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Modernity does not replace intimacy with impersonality but transforms it through distancing #expands (0.90) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 343
• Impersonal modern systems paradoxically enable reembedding of local personal life #expands (0.85) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 342
• Modern place is a local expression of distant, disembedded relations #expands (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 260
• Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them #expands (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 341
• Large-scale systems enable rather than merely threaten individual self-actualisation #expands (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 371
• Modernity shifts meaning-seeking inward as public life over-institutionalizes #expands (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 273
• Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface #expands (0.70) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 166
• Modern love attaches to unanalyzable individuality rather than to any specific attribute #expands (0.70) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 580
• The stranger embodies a simultaneous union of closeness and remoteness #exemplifies (0.65) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 388
• Modern communications technology has fundamentally reshaped human consciousness and social relations #qualifies (0.60)
• Modern organizations routinely connect local and global, affecting millions of lives #expands (0.60) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 59
• Industrialism’s communication technologies shaped humanity’s global self-awareness #corroborates (0.55) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 190
• Mechanised communication is the bedrock of modern cultural globalisation #corroborates (0.50) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 191