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EDTEC 795B
  • Major Trends

2
Historic Shift
  • Pre-modern
  • Modern
  • Post-modern

3
Pre-modern society
  • Solo worker
  • Craft work
  • Personal capitalization

4
Modern Society
  • Division of labor
  • Industrialization/Standardization
  • Market capitalization

5
Post-modernism
  • Cottage industries
  • Micro businesses
  • Mass customization
  • Personalization and differentiation
  • Micro loans

6
Globalization
  • Traditional societies
  • Pre-modernism
  • Gods will
  • Modernism
  • Mans will
  • Postmodernism
  • The continental view
  • Crisis of meaning/Nihilism
  • American Pragmatism
  • Resolving dichotomies

7
1850-1914
  • Collapse of absolute monarchy in Europe
  • Terrorism
  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand first
    in line to the Austro-Hungarian throne in
    Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia
  • Onset of World War I

8
1945
  • Bipolar world
  • US VS USSR
  • Under-developed countries
  • Developed countries
  • Centralized economies
  • Market economies
  • Centralized governance
  • Democratic governance
  • East VS West

9
Underdeveloped Countries
  • Pre-modern
  • Science
  • Gods will
  • Observing and exploring nature
  • Technology
  • Non-invasive
  • Non-interventional
  • Teaching operant conditioning in a pre-modern
    society!

10
Developed Countries
  • Modern
  • Mans will
  • Science
  • Controlling nature
  • Technology
  • Invasive
  • Interventionist

11
Impact of Modernism on Pre-Modern Societies
  • Pre-modern societies were scientific and
    technological societies
  • China, India, Persia, Egypt
  • science and technology
  • Astrology, Algebra, Alchemy, Medicine

12
Renascence
  • Success of modern science in the west
  • Decline of pre-modern societies

13
East VS West
  • Centralized economies
  • Market economies
  • Centralized governance
  • Democratic governance

14
East Meets West
  • Cold War (USSR/US)
  • Hot war USSR/US proxy wars in the third world

15
Multiculturalism
  • Your culture (all cultures) is as valid as any
    other culture
  • Radio Moscow, Circa 1960
  • Science and technology are western imports
    imposed on the people of the third world

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Current Scene
  • Terrorism
  • The elephant in the room
  • Western innovation
  • Montage economy
  • Indigenous science and technology
  • Democracy
  • Market economy
  • Reconciliation of Man VS God controversy

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Introduction of Democracy
  • Why the US has not been successful?
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