Modernity and Postmodernity Anthony Giddens
There is an important debate between those who advocate the existence of a postmodern condition and those who believe that modernity has not yet exhausted itself. Modernity is understood as the era in which the development of human knowledge began to be based on reason, especially in its instrumental dimension, and modern science, which emerged from the 16th and 17th centuries, integrating the economic, political, cultural, and social spheres.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, several authors argued that modernity was giving way to postmodernity, when grand narratives would be rejected and replaced by contingent and localized theories. This debate has ontological implications that directly reflect the construction of knowledge in Administration. What is modernity?
It is common to hear or refer to our reality as modern. The term is so naturalized in our language that it has come to have the same context as contemporary—which coexists within the same time period. But do you understand what modernity is or what we refer to when we talk about it?
To answer this question, we must go back in history and first understand how we can determine the transition from one period to another. It is commonly understood that the events that began with the French Revolution were the culmination of the overcoming of traditional thought and social organizations that marked the medieval period. The break with scholastic thought, a method of critical thinking still tied to the precepts of the Catholic Church, and the establishment of reason as an autonomous form of knowledge construction, detached from theological precepts, were some of the first steps toward the construction of modern thought.
Postmodernity is a concept in historical sociology that designates the dominant sociocultural and aesthetic condition after the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989), the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the crisis of ideologies in Western societies at the end of the 20th century, with the dissolution of reference to reason as a guarantee of the possibility of understanding the world through totalizing schemes.[1][citation needed] The idea of the postmodern condition is sometimes characterized as a culture stripped of its capacity to function in any linear or autonomous state as regressive isolationism, as opposed to the progressive state of mind of modernism.[2] Some commentators, such as Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, and Zygmunt Bauman, deny that modernity has ended and consider the post-World War II era a continuation of modernity, which they refer to as second modernity, liquid modernity, or late modernity.