ommon after the tenth century. Modernity is a commonly agreed upon phase which occurred from the Enlightenment onwards and ended in the middle of the 20th century. The changes, which occurred, were given various terms by the ‘founding fathers’ of sociology who titled it respectively, as the move from: feudalism to capitalism, mechanical to organic solidarity and traditional to modern society. A current socioloGlobalization is an increase of a role of the factors (economical, social or cultural) in production of all countries that participate in this process; it is a formation of a single world market or markets without national barriers and creation of the same juridical conditions for all the countries. As a particular stage of international relations globalization was born a few decades ago, but its formation has not ended yet until the beginning of the third millennium. However the society started paying much attention to this process only ten or fifteen years ago. Because of a great variety of political views and branches in modern world science there is no accepted definition of the globalization.

Sociology as a discipline has been examining society and all its permeations since the age of the Enlightenment. During this time, the political, economical, social and cultural changes, which have occurred have been tracked and examined by sociology. The transitions that have occurred have been named as modernity and globalization, although society has passed through other such phases previous to these. This essay will focus on both the sociologies of modernity and of globalization. The differences between the two will be analysed. A concept that illustrates these differences (travellings) will also be focused on.

Modernity is an invention of the Christian Middle Ages. Modernis from modo (‘recently’ ‘just now’) was a late Latin word, which followed on from hodiernus (from hodie ‘today’). It was first used as an antonym to antiquus in the late fifth century A.D. Modernitas (modern times) and moderm (‘men of today’) became common after the tenth century. Modernity is a commonly agreed upon phase which occurred from the Enlightenment onwards and ended in the middle of the 20th century. The changes, which occurred, were given various terms by the ‘founding fathers’ of sociology who titled it respectively, as the move from: feudalism to capitalism, mechanical to organic solidarity and traditional to modern society. A current sociolog

not ended yet until the beginning of the third millennium. However the society started paying much attention to this process only ten or fifteen years ago. Because of a great variety of political views and branches in modern world science there is no accepted definition of the globalization.

Sociology as a discipline has been examining society and all its permeations since the age of the Enlightenment. During this time, the political, economical, social and cultural changes, which have occurred have been tracked and examined by sociology. The transitions that have occurred have been named as modernity and globalization, although society has passed through other such phases previous to these. This essay will focus on both the sociologies of modernity and of globalization. The differences between the two will be analysed. A concept that illustrates these differences (travellings) will also be focused on.

Modernity is an invention of the Christian Middle Ages. Modernis from modo (‘recently’ ‘just now’) was a late Latin word, which followed on from hodiernus (from hodie ‘today’). It was first used as an antonym to antiquus in the late fifth century A.D. Modernitas (modern times) and moderm (‘men of today’) became common after the tenth century. Modernity is a commonly agreed upon phase which occurred from the Enlightenment onwards and ended in the middle of the 20th century. The changes, which occurred, were given various terms by the ‘founding fathers’ of sociology who titled it respectively, as the move from: feudalism to capitalism, mechanical to organic solidarity and traditional to modern society. A current sociolo

During this time, the political, economical, social and cultural changes, which have occurred have been tracked and examined by sociology. The transitions that have occurred have been named as modernity and globalization, although society has passed through other such phases previous to these. This essay will focus on both the sociologies of modernity and of globalization. The differences between the two will be analysed. A concept that illustrates these differences (travellings) will also be focused on.

Modernity is an invention of the Christian Middle Ages. Modernis from modo (‘recently’ ‘just now’) was a late Latin word, which followed on from hodiernus (from hodie ‘today’). It was first used as an antonym to antiquus in the late fifth century A.D. Modernitas (modern times) and moderm (‘men of today’) became common after the tenth century. Modernity is a commonly agreed upon phase which occurred from the Enlightenment onwards and ended in the middle of the 20th century. The changes, which occurred, were given various terms by the ‘founding fathers’ of sociology who titled it respectively, as the move from: feudalism to capitalism, mechanical to organic solidarity and traditional to modern society. A current sociolo

analysed. A concept that illustrates these differences (travellings) will also be focused on.

Modernity is an invention of the Christian Middle Ages. Modernis from modo (‘recently’ ‘just now’) was a late Latin word, which followed on from hodiernus (from hodie ‘today’). It was first used as an antonym to antiquus in the late fifth century A.D. Modernitas (modern times) and moderm (‘men of today’) became common after the tenth century. Modernity is a commonly agreed upon phase which occurred from the Enlightenment onwards and ended in the middle of the 20th century. The changes, which occurred, were given various terms by the ‘founding fathers’ of sociology who titled it respectively, as the move from: feudalism to capitalism, mechanical to organic solidarity and traditional to modern society. A current sociolo

ommon after the tenth century. Modernity is a commonly agreed upon phase which occurred from the Enlightenment onwards and ended in the middle of the 20th century. The changes, which occurred, were given various terms by the ‘founding fathers’ of sociology who titled it respectively, as the move from: feudalism to capitalism, mechanical to organic solidarity and traditional to modern society. A current sociologist, Anthony Giddens, has titled as the move from agricultural to industrial society. Modernity is seen as a change, which occurred from the middle of the seventeenth century onwards, these changes were illustrated in the move of agricultural workers who became mobile industrial urbanites. Despite all the differing terms, modernity is a recognized phase by sociology. The modern world is marked out as a world in which tradition is balked at or rejected, it is a world which believes in progress, a world in which the power of human reason can achieve freedom, science, technology and democracy are also seen as products of modernity. The nation-state is argued to be an institutional element, which promoted the acceleration and expansion of modern institutions. The nation-state is a highly significant feature of modernity. ‘They concentrated administrative power far more effectively than traditional states were able to do and consequently even quite small states could mobilise social and economic resources beyond those available to pre-modern systems’.

How did these sociologists concentrate on modernity? What particular outlook did they have regarding modernity? Karl Marx focused on capitalism as being endemic of modernity, while Weber spoke of the iron cage of rationality, which was due to the dehumanising effects of the modern worlds overly, rationalized social order. Emile Durkheim concentrated upon the uncertainty, loss of direction and the feeling that individuals were somehow on their own as a consequence of modernity. Traditional society was no more as the ties of family, kin and neighbourhood were broken up by new mobilitie