Question

Do you think that modernization is good or bad? Explain, using examples.

Answer 1

Answer:

Modernization has different outcomes, positive: increased technological developments and innovations in transforming natural resources

negative: constant dependency on technological or modern devices turned into

Explanation:

When sociologists like August Comte, Saint Simon, or Max Weber targeted Modernity and the process of societies evolving from a primordial or predeterminated state of affairs. They were nostalgic for the past, since Modernity promised an era of advancemnts based on the notion that rational use of it would enable to combat the main problems affecting the world like famines, pollution. They believed that along the industrial revolution science would be used for the good of mankind and that a new era was to come.

However within their lifetime they saw that human nature was more prone to wars, selfish desires and instead of building a new world with modernization, they experienced the problems of urban areas becoming polluted, epidemics returning with new diseases that appeared as consequences.

Even if medice and medical research ocurred new reasons for human suffering appeared as unprecedent leves of stress, anxiety and mental diseases are product of modernization.

Almost all sociological studies would not favor modernization process in the way are carried to our days. Instead they seek for a change in the direction they are being applied.