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