Stable background institutions were the precondition for modern acceleration
Evidence
In central areas acceleration is made possible precisely by the fact that authoritative institutions like law, political steering mechanisms, and the stable industrial work(time) regime, together with leading abstract cultural orientations such as values and ideas of progress, rationalization, individualism, universalism, and activism, were themselves exempted from change and therefore helped create reliable expectations, stable planning, and predictability. This in turn must be viewed as the foundation of economic, technical, and scientific acceleration and perhaps also of an accelerated individual conduct of life. Only against the background of such stable horizons of expectation does it become rational to make the long-term plans and investments that were indispensable for numerous modernization processes. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 286
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Social acceleration is a self-reinforcing feedback loop — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 434; Social acceleration erodes the institutions that once stabilized chosen identities. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 32; Social acceleration is the irreducible master principle of modernization — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 762 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Social acceleration is the irreducible master principle of modernization
#qualifies(0.80) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 762 - Three mechanisms drive modernity’s dynamism and process of time-space distanciation
#expands(0.78) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 131 - Pre-modern societies underwent change without experiencing it as accelerated rupture
#contradicts(0.75) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 409 - Institutional legacies persist through deliberate elite action, not inertia alone
#expands(0.75) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 371