The traditional-modern dichotomy obscures the pathologies of modernization.

Evidence

In the first place, drawing the contrast between traditional and modern society leads only too easily to an ahistorical parody of the range, diversity and complexity of social formations prior to the Industrial Revolution. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 156

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modernity and modernization concepts may be inadequate to explain modern experience — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 146; Modern methods cannot solve problems caused by modernity itself — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 481; Modernity is trouble and a problem, not simply progress — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 185 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Modernity and modernization concepts may be inadequate to explain modern experience #expands (0.85) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 146
• Modernity is trouble and a problem, not simply progress #corroborates (0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 185
• The European modernization narrative has no overriding importance for analyzing modernity #corroborates (0.85)
• Modern methods cannot solve problems caused by modernity itself #corroborates (0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 481
• Modernity is best understood as compulsive, self-propelling modernization, not a completed state #corroborates (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 651
• Modernization of traditional cultures always requires political coercion #exemplifies (0.80) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 743
• Modernism, modernity, and modernization are distinct concepts with uneven circulation across nations #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 663
• A critique of modernity that stays within modernity’s framework only reinforces it #expands (0.75)