Future of Modernization

Joann Owens

Future of Modernization

SOC 120

Future of Modernization

Modernization manifests in US society by interlinking daily and forms of marketplace and revenue onto a global scale. This global Markey and modernization is manifested by commercialism, global trade and is circulated via the internet. Modernization is a world wide trend because countries become modern by seeking what other countries and communities already possess, or trying to stay ahead of other countries. For developing countries modernization is occurring, but on a longer and slower time line. The consequences of modernization include decreased values of goods, and work ethics. This is because of intense competition on a global and rapidly changing scale. It also allows some countries to excel faster than others, and lets more developing countries fall behind in their quest for forward growth. The French sociologist Emile Durkheim, modernization was marked by an increasing division of labor, or specialized economic activity. As the need of the American people grew, the free trade and capitalist nature of the nation manifested itself and industries prospered. The government, since its beginning has encouraged free market, allowing Durkheim’s idea of a highly specialized workforce in place and at the same time, due to specialization, creating a mass populace employed in the efficient factories that sprouted after Ford showed how assembly line production can increase output in the early part of the 20th century. Many people were amazed at the industrial technology that was changing the world a century ago to what it has become today. Many things are happening in the United States today, we are in a war, weather justifiable or not we are there and we are trying to make the...