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Wednesday 5 February 2014

13. Modernism and our traditional socio-ethical values


Can a culture  be so vulnerable that any other contemporary culture pose a threat to its existence by infusing its values.Our debate presents a idea of fear for decreasing traditional values in the light of so called modern values.The word modernism however is used to describe certain trends in art, writing, criticism and philosophy that have had a powerful influence on the development and experience of the 20th century. Conventionally we can date these trends from the last decade of the 19th century (1890) to about the beginning of the 2nd world war in 1939.Modernism reflects intangible social values,beliefs ideology under modernity than the centralising around material culture.Material culture changes rapidly as compared to non material culture that is ideological change.It is called cultural lag.whenever a change comes a reaction found to counter the change and resist it .This resistance makes change gradual and bring at a suitable pace so that other related things also change in compatible manner.
                Foremost,the question arise is that whether modernism and traditional socio-ethical values are compatible and can coexist together or antagonistic to each other.the clear cut answer is difficult to find out.Let us take a example that people are now more secular than before.Is it means the religion will wipe out from traditional society one day. No but definitely the the religion will be restricted to individual more and more than a collective idea.Both modernism and traditional socio-ethical values are differed but impact each other subtly and give birth to new fused values which is a fine mix of modernism and tradition.
                        Values are beliefs hold by humans as subjects of a society for judging moral good or bad conduct and behaviour.While a try to find out about something that whether it is ethical or not ,is a systematic investigation of finding good or bad with certain principles of theoretical construct.It is enquiry to find out what is good or bad and why.
Socio-ethical values related to judgement of good and bad are hold collectively by a group or societ

1 comment:

  1. quiet good! could
    be more explanatory

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