Western consumer capitalism shapes an auxiliary modernizing intelligentsia in the Orient.

Evidence

Modernity is inherently globalising, and the unsettling consequences of this phenomenon combine with the circularity of its reflexive character to form a universe of events in which risk and hazard take on a novel character. The globalising tendencies of modernity are simultaneously extensional and intensional—they connect individuals to large-scale systems as part of complex dialectics of change at both local and global poles. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 409 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modernity’s globalising tendencies connect individuals to large-scale systems — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 409; Capitalism reproduces itself by drawing civil and cultural life into conformity with its needs; Capitalism’s reproduction requires family, education, and media apparatuses

Related

• Modernity should be defined as the civilization capitalism built. (similarity 0.81)
• Modernity is best understood as the civilization produced by global capitalism (similarity 0.80)
• World market expansion can intensify pre-capitalist production relations. (similarity 0.80)
• Mass culture and mass markets were integral to corporate capitalism’s ascendancy (similarity 0.79)
• Capitalism becomes a whole way of life only through the state’s ethical civilizing work. (similarity 0.79)
• Capitalism’s non-political nature enabled its global penetration beyond state reach (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism reproduces itself by drawing civil and cultural life into conformity with its needs #corroborates (0.82)
• Modernity’s globalising tendencies connect individuals to large-scale systems #responds-to (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 409
• Capitalism’s reproduction requires family, education, and media apparatuses #expands (0.72)