GLOBALIZING IMPACT OF MODERNITY IN AFRICA
Journal Title: Journal of Globalization Studies - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 2
Abstract
Modernity as a dynamic phenomenon resulting from its elements of time-space distanciation, disembedding mechanisms and reflexivity impacts enormously the very personal and intimate lives of people, including social and religious institutions around the world. This article describes Giddens's theory of modernization and globalization and uses it to interpret the globalizing impact of modernity in the African context. It argues that Giddens's idea of modernity as the end of tradition falls short of interpreting adequately the impact of modernity in Africa.
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Ibrahim S. Bitrus
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