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Table 1: The characteristics of First and Second Modernization
First Modernization
Second Modernization
structure-oriented thinking
process-oriented thinking
autonomy attempt
integration into networks
control
own internal dynamic
concreteness
vagueness
either …. or
as well …. as
coherent identities
cohesive identities
closeness
openness
delimitation
diffusion
circularity
ramification
Homogeneity in principle ensures a climate of trust, and without this
condition the human interaction was and is still unthinkable. But in terms of
current economic globalization we can’t talk about such stability anymore.
Moving in different cultural spaces and dealing with a variety of value
systems make cultural homogeneity no more a self-evident condition. By
integration in different contexts, in the most cases from different geographical
areas, an individual is compelled to develop multiple identities; he is
subjected to a process of hybridization, creolization [2].
The oscillation between identity and alterity is on the one hand
recognition of differences, and on the other hand the searching within these
differences of general normative benchmarks, of some “
consensual islands
”
that ensure a balance in the interaction. The alternation between
homogenizing globalization, based on the Western capitalism, and the
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