Original scientific paper
HISTORICAL SPACE AND PROCESSES OF MODERNIZATION Some Criterional and Epistemological Notes
Matko Meštrović
; Institute of Economics, Zagreb
Abstract
The relevance of historical events for a certain society is reflected
foremost in the degree of development of its internal
connections by means of which it is constituted as a geopolitical
entity. The relative time of reproduction of its social structures is
in fact the society's specific social time. The latter depends on the
dynamics of global processes which cut into society's social space.
Essential are those processes that determine the order of accumulation
of capital, because this in turn is connected with the
mode and range of social and political requlation, i.e. normative
socialization and the institutional development of society. Processes
of globalization are increasingly raising doubts about understanding
society constituted as a state-nation. The general civilizational
attitude towards the sum-total of life conditions is reflected
in the dynamic articulation of different forms of capital as the
relationship between the distribution/allocation of social resources
and social power.
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Hrčak ID:
31796
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Publication date:
1.9.1996.
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