Modern Society And The Unfinished Revolution

European Ideas: Politics and Justice. Civil Society: Law, Revolution and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society

Modern Society and the Unfinished Revolution

University of Flensburg European Ideas: Politics and Justice. Civil Society: Law, Revolution and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society Prof. Dr. Hauke Brunkhorst Summer semester 2009 Jacqueline Amezcua Valenzuela Matr. Nr: 5361900

European Ideas: Politics and Justice. Civil Society: Law, Revolution and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society

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Unfinished revolution...............................................................................2 Drums .....................................................................................................3 I choose..................................................................................................4 Looking back moving forward..................................................................5 How do I change? ...................................................................................6 Changing too fast.................................................................................. 10 Money................................................................................................... 12 Conclusion ............................................................................................ 16 Sources................................................................................................. 17

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European Ideas: Politics and Justice. Civil Society: Law, Revolution and the Emergence of a Global Civil SocietyUnfinished revolution
The study of human social life, with its groups and societies allows us to see the world from different points of view than just our own. The wide range of areas of sociology brings multiple possibilities to study human life and through the time, sociologists have proposed different conceptions of evolution to explain the emergence of the modern society. An explanation forthe current systems of society and its organization has been explained by different approaches, however a series of revolutions find its roots going back nein centuries back to the Papal Revolution afterward to the Protestant Lutheran, then to the Calvinist, followed by the American, the French, the Russian and the Global Legal Revolution leaving open a current unfinished Revolution. I imply thatthe unfinished Revolution is a contemporary process of an accelerated modernity. Modernization could be understood from the classical approaches of Weber, Durkheim Marx and Simmel and as “an ongoing process of structural differentiation, cultural rationalization and personal individualization, and sometimes as a process of commodification or instrumental control, too.”1 Yet, we could criticizethat this theory has a narrow and straight view, which makes it not malleable and unable to account the divers of ranges and the bride scope of contemporary modernity. However that is not the fundamental scope of the present paper but to present relevant social elements that support the idea of an ongoing and unfinished revolution. Changes in values and norms are constant over time and many of themare object of either deliberated change or gradual progress, sometimes without any recognition of it. Many of our behaviors are constrained by cultural factors like norms and values and this might be dependant of the type of government and the role of the state. But even if there are several factors that participate in individuals’ life, this is not object of fixity. Individuals can determine andchange their roles even when expectations surrounding them, they can involve negotiation and they can be creative encouraging their own role.2 Opposing this idea is the functionalist school where

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