CONSTANTIN SCHIFIRNET, “TENDENTIAL MODERNITY - REFLECTIONS ON THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN SOCIETY”, Tritonic Publishing, Bucharest, 2016
Journal Title: Revista Universitara de Sociologie - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
Without presenting a new phenomenon, the modernity in present times manifests as an essential communicative condition and as one of synchronization, making local and national effects, determined by the causes, especially, the historical ones. So, the out of phase people in development can suddenly join the civilized ones, following the way of imitation the occidental forms, and then the way of blending the ethnical specific of a nation. In a climate characterized by confusion and improvisation, the book Tendential Modernity - Reflections on the evolution of modern society, and also the other books published by mister Constantin Schifirnet, is remarked by the originality of its scientific approaches, by using with accuracy the scientific terms and, also by the accuracy of the scientific explanations. The author is one of the best, and as a prove stand his own published studies, in the last years, about the idea of tendentious modernity: Tendentious modernity and innovation,2008; The mass media and the tendentious modernity in the transition process from national society to European Community, 2009; Tendentious modernity, 2009; Tendential modernity, 2012; Mass-media, tendential modernity and Europeanization in an internet era, 2014 Practically, the book Tendential Reality - Reflections on the evolution of modern society, is part of the author′s interest regarding such an interesting field like the one of modernity, in which many theories were made, also points of view and assumptions, existing statistical data and information, studies, scientific explanations and interpretations. The author’s talent is incontestable, because he succeeded to analyse the explicative models on the variety of the evolution ways to the modernity of the societies, being capable to make them interpretable from the point of view of three research directions.
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Maria PESCARU
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