Structural modernization necessarily transforms subjective identity
Evidence
Thus it is more or less obvious that social-structural processes of modernization cannot occur without some correspondence in the construction of subjective senses of self, in other words that social-structural transformation through modernization must necessarily go hand in hand with a transformation of identity. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 82
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Individualization as a modernization outcome differs sharply from neoliberal individualism and psychological individuation — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 103; Contemporary identity is self-fashioning rather than fixed essence; Self-identity is now a reflexive project conducted amid abstract systems — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 295 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Individualization as a modernization outcome differs sharply from neoliberal individualism and psychological individuation
#expands(0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 103 - Faster-than-lifetime social change erodes stable identity forms into situational ones
#corroborates(0.85) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 32 - Identity is both a source of agency and increasingly constructed rather than given
#corroborates(0.82) - Contemporary identity is self-fashioning rather than fixed essence
#exemplifies(0.80) - Self-identity is now a reflexive project conducted amid abstract systems
#expands(0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 295