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# Modernity # | # Modernity # | ||
- | When many people discuss social change, they tend to use a particular language which sounds neutral, but actually has a lot of baggage. One example of this is the "TED talk" given by Steven Pinker and [[1002: | + | When many people discuss social change, they tend to use a particular language which sounds neutral, but actually has a lot of baggage. One example of this is the "TED talk" given by Steven Pinker and [[1002: |
In fact, they aren' | In fact, they aren' | ||
- | There is no such thing as modernity in the sense that some societies are objectively different or more advanced than other societies. Although a lot of people use this word--modern--and it may seem perfectly innocent, but if you look closely at how people use it, you can see that it hides an ethnocentric bias. If a contemporary society is different from the observer' | + | There is no such thing as modernity in the sense that some societies are objectively different or more advanced than other societies. Although a lot of people use this word--modern--and it may seem perfectly innocent, but if you look closely at how people use it, you can see that it hides an [[ethnocentrism_and_cultural_relativism|ethnocentric]] bias. If a contemporary society is different from the observer' |
There are even many anthropologists who look to hunter-gatherers and other societies as "our contemporary ancestors" | There are even many anthropologists who look to hunter-gatherers and other societies as "our contemporary ancestors" |
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