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  2. List of global issues - Wikipedia

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    A global issue is a matter of public concern worldwide. This list of global issues presents problems or phenomena affecting people around the world, including but not limited to widespread social issues, economic issues, and environmental issues.

  3. New social movements - Wikipedia

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    New social movements also give rise to a great emphasis on the role of post-material values in contemporary and post-industrial society as opposed to conflicts over material resources. According to Melucci, one of the leading new social movement theorists, these movements arise not from relations of production and distribution of resources but ...

  4. Modernity - Wikipedia

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    [48] [page needed] [49] Contemporary sociological critical theory presents the concept of rationalization in even more negative terms than those Weber originally defined. Processes of rationalization—as progress for the sake of progress—may in many cases have what critical theory says is a negative and dehumanising effect on modern society.

  5. Complex society - Wikipedia

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    France is a good example of a complex society due to its history being well known and documented. Thus, historians can trace just how the rise of medieval France occurred. The evolution of ancient Gaul into early modern France provides an example to how complex societies have come into being.

  6. Social structure - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, society is believed to be grouped into structurally related groups or sets of roles, with different functions, meanings, or purposes. Examples of social structure include family, religion, law, economy, and class. It contrasts with "social system", which refers to the parent structure in which these various structures are embedded.

  7. Late modernity - Wikipedia

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    The subject is constructed in late modernity against the backdrop of a fragmented world of competing and contrasting identities [6] and lifestyle cultures. [7] The framing matrix of the late modern personality is the ambiguous way the fluid social relations of late modernity impinge on the individual, producing a reflexive and multiple self. [8]

  8. Network society - Wikipedia

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    This means that social and media networks are shaping the prime mode of organization and most important structures of modern society. [2] Van Dijk's The Network Society describes what the network society is and what it might be like in the future. The first conclusion of this book is that modern society is in a process of becoming a network ...

  9. Contemporary history - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from about 1945 to the present. [1] In the social sciences, contemporary history is also continuous with, and related to, the rise of postmodernity .