TENDENTIAL MODERNITY: A Type of Modernity without a Dominant Form
TENDENTIAL MODERNITY: A Type of Modernity without a Dominant Form

Summary/Abstract: This study analyzes modernity within the context of the Romanian society, emphasizing its particularities embodied in what I call tendential modernity. This type of modernity is examined in connection with others: classical, reflexive, liquid, late and multiple modernities. I analyze modernity as a tendential state in the societies where it is not present at all the levels, because it is not consistent and it manifests itself unequally in different fields. In societies lacking a developed economy, tendential modernity is based on institutional and political constructions. It is opposite to a type of modernity sustained by economic development. I use the concept of tendential modernity in order to underline the lack of any clear dominant modernity feature within a society with low economic and material grounds.

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