Social acceleration is the irreducible master principle of modernization

Evidence

I do indeed defend the thesis that social acceleration should be understood as an irreducible and tendentially dominant basic principle of both modernity and modernization for three interconnected reasons. In the first place, social acceleration and its underlying logic of escalation have proved in the course of the present work to be the unified principle that links together not only the four dimensions of modernization but also the various phases of the modernization process. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 762

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Decelerating society is self-contradictory because progress entails dynamization — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 848; A theory of acceleration can defend its Western scope without claiming universality. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 144; Perceived stress tracks the rate of acceleration, not absolute pace of life. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 378 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Social acceleration is a self-reinforcing feedback loop #expands (0.90) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 434