ABSTRACT
Modernity is becoming a global phenomenon. The growth of modernity is related to the rise of the secular state and polity, the global capitalist system, the advanced form of social and sexual division of labour and the transition from a religious to a secular culture. Modernity attempts at the formation of a rational culture and an efficient economy. Sociology emerged and grew as an intellectual response to modernity. Sociology was also eager to understand the formation of modernity and its institutions. Postmodernity can also be understood in terms of political objectives. The politics of modernity is the politics of the state. “The reflexivity of modern social life”, according to Anthony Giddens, “consists in the fact that social practices are constantly examined and reformed in the light of incoming information about those very practices, thus constitutively altering their character“.
