How moderation has the potential to destroy traditions and cultural values and at the same time help to alleviate cultural lag.



How moderation has the potential to destroy traditions and cultural values and at the same time help to alleviate cultural lag

Outline

Introduction

This paper will discuss that “How moderation has the potential to destroy traditions and cultural values and at the same time help to alleviate cultural lag (stagnation)”. After discussing the two concepts, the paper will discuss how moderation can destroy tradition and culture, but on the other hand can prove helpful in eliminating cultural stagnation. Moderation has no doubt helped in moving the humankind beyond the cultural and traditional stagnation but it has also destroyed the culture on other hand which was much needed in today's world (Rostow, 2008).

Discussion

Traditionalism

It aims to avoid any break with tradition, the seat of truth.

It seeks to preserve the old forms and political, religious and moral values, because they are the spontaneous expression of the true needs of a society.

It attempts to safeguard the values, social and cultural arrangements most strongly bonded in the past.

Moderation

Moderation is defined as opposition to so-called traditional values.

Moderation is defined as the absence of shared values ??which put another way; a single common value is the one where people live with different values.

According to this principle values ??have none from the perspective of the community.

Moderation as crisis

Modernity rejects the notion of hierarchy of values.

Everything is equivalent and replaceable and interchangeable including spouses, partners, children, family, men and women.

The concept of gay or lesbian parents suggests that biological paternity is worthless.

Moderation helping in alleviate cultural lag

Modernity has brought the paradoxical notion of equality for women.

The notion of equality for women hypothesizes that these men would form a group opposed to a group that would form these women.

Due to a principle called the Patriarchate of the group men would benefit from a happiness index higher than that of women. As a result of this should give full privileges and more resources to women.

Conclusion

Modernization theory denotes a diverse body of literature on development produced by a group of economists, political scientists, and sociologists during the 1950s and 1960s. A simple dichotomous concept lay at the core of the paradigm. Human societies were either traditional or modern. With the history of Western industrialization as a benchmark, these theorists defined a modern society as a technical, cosmopolitan, secular, and dynamic entity able to control nature and expand scientific knowledge (Rostow, 2008).

Moderation

Introduction

This paper will discuss that “How moderation has the potential to destroy traditions and cultural values and at the same time help to alleviate cultural lag (stagnation)”. For the sake of analyzing this paper firstly tradition and culture will be discussed and then moderation. After discussing the two concepts, the paper will discuss how moderation can destroy tradition and culture, but on the other hand can prove helpful in eliminating cultural stagnation. The paper will talk in great detail regarding moderation or modernity discussing both its good and bad ...