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What is the primary distinction between the 'modern' and 'traditional' social orders?
What is the primary distinction between the 'modern' and 'traditional' social orders?
Progress and betterment
When did the term 'modern' acquire a new meaning, denoting a qualitative difference from previous eras?
When did the term 'modern' acquire a new meaning, denoting a qualitative difference from previous eras?
Towards the end of the eighteenth century
What was the dominant notion of modernity during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?
What was the dominant notion of modernity during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?
Modernity as progress
What period saw the emergence of distinctive new modes of thinking about time and space?
What period saw the emergence of distinctive new modes of thinking about time and space?
What were some of the technological innovations that established the material foundation for the reorientation of time and space?
What were some of the technological innovations that established the material foundation for the reorientation of time and space?
What were some of the independent cultural developments that contributed to the reorientation of time and space?
What were some of the independent cultural developments that contributed to the reorientation of time and space?
What is modernization?
What is modernization?
What is the basic premise of modernization theory?
What is the basic premise of modernization theory?
What is the primary result of modernization on political culture and institutions?
What is the primary result of modernization on political culture and institutions?
What are the various aspects of modernization?
What are the various aspects of modernization?
What is implied by modernization?
What is implied by modernization?
What has largely shaped the built environment in the twenty-first century?
What has largely shaped the built environment in the twenty-first century?
What was the new movement that challenged modernism towards the end of the twentieth century?
What was the new movement that challenged modernism towards the end of the twentieth century?
Where did modernization theory and industrialization originate?
Where did modernization theory and industrialization originate?
What is the central unit of public policy in a modernized society?
What is the central unit of public policy in a modernized society?
What are the three components of postmodernism and postmodernity identified by Dear (1994)?
What are the three components of postmodernism and postmodernity identified by Dear (1994)?
Why is architecture often used as a starting point for discussions of postmodernism?
Why is architecture often used as a starting point for discussions of postmodernism?
What is the link between architecture and the concerns of geographers interested in the built environment?
What is the link between architecture and the concerns of geographers interested in the built environment?
