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Revision as of 00:43, 6 July 2007 by 128.163.224.105 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Premodernity is the world in which we live, and the society in which we function, along side "modernity," a rebellion against the harsh realities of life and "postmodernity," a creation of artificial human reality to escape premodern and modern society completely. Modernity occured in a rebellion against the transformation of society due to industrialism, which in Europe followed the agricultural revolution of the 18th century and the democratic revolution in overseas colonies and on the continent. After the age of premodernity, postmodernists and their sociological counterparts believe we entered the age of postmodernity in the mid-20th century to further war efforts and conservative politics that were receding due to the use of nuclear and atomic weaponry. Postmodernity also elludes to the destruction of medical progress and was the birth of the Nazi party. Premodern medical rights, capitalism and equality are the objectives at which modern and postmodern culture attempts to control by maintaining social heirarchy by qualitative or stereotypical thought, versus numerical reasoning done by premodern society.
Premodern worldview
In the premodern era, truth was derived from knowledge and the maintenance of authority (as well as the belief in a god or gods depending on personal religious preferences). The state of human life is seen as unchanging, and social order was loosely enforced; this is in opposition to the social strata of modern culture where people have very little means to make sense of the world around them due to conservative education control and postmodernity society explains the world they lived in largely through story rooted in.
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