Contemporary State of the Modern Society Theory

Abstract

The modern society or modern civil society, holding an immature part and taking an ambivalent character of liberating and suppression because of a historical process of the formation, has consisted until today. It has had various influence on the consideration of the contemporary society as thought tendency to which the remark theory on various thought (postmodern) such as antimodern ages, post-modern ages, ultra-modern ages, and reject-modern ages caused during the maturity can be summarized. It is necessary to ask it from the standpoint of the macro sociology that diagnoses a whole society like the modernization society image etc. that exist historically with the thought image as system in the age.Talcott Parsons thought modernization of Europe established the Industrial Revolution and a democratic revolution and that of America achieved an educational revolution and associations. Kenichi Tominaga discussed the modernization of Japan society, and has generalized the model of a modern industrial society. Mutsundo Atarashi explains the latter term modern by comparison with the first term modern the transformation of informatized, managerial, the internationalization, and the popularization. Isamu Kaneko and Kouichi Hasegawa pursed 9 flows of the present age from the aspect of the macro sociology. Especially the most sociological modern theme is a reality of the globalization that Yosuke Koutô emphasizes as a hybrid modern. It begins there to see symptom the post modernization that exceeds the latter term modern though is one phase of the modern. Risk and the environment by Niklas Luhman high-modernity and surveillance by Anthony Giddens, the liquid society by Bauman explains such a symptom.