Modernity

Modernity typically refers to "a post-traditional, post-medieval historical period," marked in particular by the rise of industrialism, capitalism, secularization, the nation-state, and its constituent forms of surveillance (Barker 2005, 444). The term is related to the modern era and modernism but forms a distinct concept. In different contexts, the term may refer to a condition associated with cultural and intellectual movements of a period beginning anywhere from 1436 to 1789 (or for a few as late as 1895), and extending to the 1970s or later (Toulmin 1992, 3-5).

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Modernity typically refers to "a post-traditional, post-medieval historical period," marked in particular by the rise of industrialism, capitalism, secularization, the nation-state, and its constituent forms of surveillance (Barker 2005, 444). The term is related to the modern era and modernism but forms a distinct concept. In different contexts, the term may refer to a condition associated with cultural and intellectual movements of a period beginning anywhere from 1436 to 1789 (or for a few as late as 1895), and extending to the 1970s or later (Toulmin 1992, 3-5).