Abstract

EISENSTADT, S. N.. Modernidades múltiplas. Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas [online]. 2001, n.35, pp.139-163. ISSN 0873-6529.

The idea of multiple modernities presumes that the best way to understand the contemporary world - indeed to explain the history of modernity - is to see it as a story of continual constitution and reconstitution of a multiplicity of cultural programs. The term "multiple modernities" entails two implications. The first one is that modernity and westernisation are not identical; the western pattern or patterns of modernity are not only "authentic" modernities, even if they were historically prior and continued to be central reference ont for other modern visions. Second, the term modernities entails finally the recognition that such modernities are not "static", but continually changing.

Keywords : Multiple modernities; institutional and ideological patterns.

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