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- Bureaucracy this is the impersonal, social hierarchies that are characterized by division of labor and are marked by a regularity of method and procedurewithin a government authority.
- Disenchantment of the societies.
- Rationalization.
- Secularization is the loss of religious influence or religious belief at a societal level.
- Alienation-refers to the isolation of the individual from systems of meaning.
- Commodification-this is where all aspects of life to objects of monetary consumption and exchangeare reduced.
- Decontexutalization-is the removal of social practices, beliefs, and cultural objects from their local cultures of origin within a given society.
- Individualism.
- Nationalism-is the rise of the modern nation states as rational centralized governments that often cross local and ethnic groupings.
- Urbanization is the move of people from their rural areas to large cities.
- Subjectivism
- Linear-progression
- Objectivism.
- Universalism-is the application of ideas to all culturesor circumstances regardless of local distinctions.
- Reductionism-refers to the belief that something can be understood by studying the parts that make it.
- Mass society-is the growth of societies united by mass media and widespread dissemination of cultural practices as opposed to local and regional culture particulars
- Industrialization.
- Homogenization.
- Democratisation-political systems are characterized by free elections, independent judiciaries, rule of law and respect of human rights
- Mechanization-is described to as transfer of the means of production from human labor to mechanized and more advanced technology.
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