ABSTRACT
The argument of the last chapter suggests that globalization is much more than an extension of longer-standing processes of modernization. If it were simply that we would be able to accommodate it easily in the conceptual frame which was forged in the heat of the social change of the industrial revolution. Increasingly we can recognize that this was the perspective of nation-state sociology, employing ideas of community, nation and culture which reflected social conditions which have passed away. Modernity is now already ‘classic’, old, often outworn.
