Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era) and the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms...

Behavioral modernity is a suite of behavioral and cognitive traits believed to distinguish current Homo sapiens from other anatomically modern humans...

The Malaise of Modernity is a book by the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor based on his 1991 Massey Lecture of the same title. Originally published...

(post-modernity or the postmodern condition) is the economic or cultural state or condition of society which is said to exist after modernity. Some schools...

between modernity and The Holocaust. The book has been seen as a criticism of modernity, as one of Bauman's arguments is that it was modernity that led...

Late modernity (or liquid modernity) is the characterization of today's highly developed global societies as the continuation (or development) of modernity...

Islam and modernity is a topic of discussion in contemporary sociology of religion. The history of Islam chronicles different interpretations and approaches...

Second modernity is a phrase coined by the German sociologist Ulrich Beck, and is his word for the period after modernity. Where modernity broke down...

of Modernity (French: Critique de la modernité) is a 1992 book by the French sociologist Alain Touraine. It attempts to offer a critique of modernity which...

period based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity. There is no exact date that marks the beginning or end of the period...