Modern Age and Contemporary Age
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Modern age They are related Contemporary age
(differences) in… (Differences)
Economy The Industrial Revolution Economy
• First phase of the Revolution brought improvements in Second Phase of the Industrial
Industrial: This period was the transportation. Revolution: During this period there
driving force in Western Europe were new sources of energy such as
use factories where they began electricity and steam. Another process
to receive a salary during this period included the
for their work and the first production of steam-powered steel
machines that improved ships.
production processes appeared.
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• It is organized into: the Nobility, the AIIAAI! The social organization that It was characterized by three social
still exists as a hierarchy that
Clergy, the Third Estate or divides the entire society into movements: Luddism, which was a
Common Estate, the Bourgeoisie different strata, starting with the movement characterized by opposition
and the Power of the Proletariat. nobility, the peasants, the middle to the introduction of modern
• The Renaissance: They created class or merchants, and the machinery in the production process;
new styles and techniques to people. Chartism, a popular movement that
capture their creations such as: expressed the agitation of the working
• The painting class; and the Trade Union Movement,
• Literature which was driven by the development
• The architecture of the railroad.
Modern age Contemporary age
(differences) (Differences)
They are related
in… Political
Political It was a break with a political order that
Characterized by absolutism where they Who sought the abolition of had existed since the Middle Ages,
were divided into kingdoms and empires that monarchical absolutism which, despite the changes brought
were governed by Kings who were ruled by about by humanism and reform, was
fiefs, under the control of the feudal lords unleashed by the French revolutionary
who belonged to the nobility. process, and the Enlightenment was
brought about by the impact of the
independence of the English colonies.
Ideologies
Ideologies They were divided into:
The Catholic Church produced a religious Emergence of liberalism: it is the
movement known as the Protestant There is no relationship predominant current of thought during
Reformation or Reformation, which had its between these two, because the French revolutionary process.
origin in the criticisms and proposals with the modern age consisted of Philosophical currents:
which various religious people and thinkers the reform and its political, Positivism: It is a philosophical
sought to bring about profound change. economic and intellectual movement that affirms that the only
They were divided into: causes and the contemporary authentic knowledge is scientific
Religious reforms: It was a movement that age consisted of the knowledge. Existentialism: It is a
broke away from Christianity. Political philosophical emergences philosophical current that pursues the
causes: With the formation of the National and currents. knowledge of reality through experience.
States, kings and church leaders fought for
power.
Modern age Contemporary age
(differences) (Differences)
They are related
Intellectual causes: The Renaissance Structuralism: It is a research approach in
encouraged a predilection for
in… the social sciences that grew to become
knowledge and the exaltation of man There is no relationship between one of the most widely used methods for
as the center of the universe. these two, because the modern analyzing language, culture, and society.
Economic causes: Where many nobles age consisted of the reform and Rise of fascism:
and bourgeois saw in the Reformation its political, economic and Italian fascism: The social, economic and
the opportunity to seize the intellectual causes and the political crises that occurred during the First
unproductive lands that the church had contemporary age consisted of World War favored the rise of fascism in
accumulated during the Middle Ages. the philosophical emergences and Italy, its leader was Benito Mussolini.
currents. German Nazism: The economic crisis and
the humiliation caused by the signing of the
Treaty of Versailles favoured the triumph of
Nazism, whose main characteristics were
the defence of a totalitarian state.
Spanish Falangism: This doctrine sought
the unity of Spain and the strengthening of
the Army, the abolition of the party system
and the rejection of capitalism.
