Social acceleration compresses the present across all institutional spheres

Evidence

The acceleration of social change can thus be defined as an increase of the rate of decay of action-orienting experiences and expectations and as a contraction of the time periods that determine the present of respective functional, value, and action spheres. Such a standard of stability and change can be applied to social and cultural institutions and practices of any kind: the thesis of a general acceleration of social change states that the “present” contracts as much in politics as in the economy, science, and art, in work relations as much as in family arrangements, and just as much in moral as in practical everyday orientations. Hence the present contracts from both a cultural as well as a structural perspective. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 261

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the second category of acceleration (social change) via rate of decay of experiences and contraction of the present.
• XREF: connects to: Social acceleration first enabled then collapsed modernity’s promise of autonomy — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 23; Social acceleration is the irreducible master principle of modernization — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 762; Social acceleration is more fundamental than rationalization, individualization, and other modernization processes — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 221 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Social acceleration is the irreducible master principle of modernization #corroborates (0.85) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 762
• Modernity’s acceleration corrodes the very institutional stability it depends on #complicates (0.85) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 297
• Social acceleration first enabled then collapsed modernity’s promise of autonomy #expands (0.82) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 23
• Social acceleration is more fundamental than rationalization, individualization, and other modernization processes #corroborates (0.80) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 221
• Social acceleration splits into technical acceleration and social rates of change #expands (0.78) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 227