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modernity  

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  • Modernity can be understood as a post-traditional historical period marked by industrialism, capitalism, the nation-state and increasingly sophisticated forms of social surveillance. The institutions of modernity are said by Giddens to consist of capitalism, industrialism, military power (of the nation-state) and surveillance. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Cultural Studies; Modernity]

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