ABSTRACT
The term ‘modern’ is one of the most discussed concepts in the social sciences. Modern, modernity, and modernization are interrelated concepts by which social scientists have tried to refer to an epochal change in human history. Despite some disagreements about the origins and the starting point of the ‘modern time,’ it seems that there is a common understanding of the European origin of modernity. In almost all cases, the modern is coupled with the emergence and development of the capitalist system that changed the history of human beings (Marx, 1954, 1956). The rapid spread of the modern capitalist system all over the world, has drawn together all regions and countries within a world capitalist system (Wallerstein, 1974).
