GREFI International Conference (Mid-term) 2023 on Globalization and the Crisis of 'The Project of Modernity'

The notion of modernity is closely linked with the rise of industrial capitalism in the West in last two or three centuries. As a result, all earlier civilizations have become either dissolved or altered beyond recognition by the impact of modern social forms. Thus, modernity has been a central phenomenon in the western social sciences. In the field of social sciences, the term ‘modernity’ is used to describe the particular attributes of modern industrial society. A major concern of social theory has been the analysis of modernity and its impact on the world. Social theorists believe that “the project of modernity” originated with the growth of scientific knowledge in the period called Renaissancewhich gave an impetus to the notion of rationality in pre-modern societies of the Europe. Three important transformations–the agricultural revolution, the commercial revolution and the industrial revolution transformed the European society into a modern industrial society. The notion…