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Re-Evaluation of Modern Societies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 July 2024

Georges Friedman

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A complex of transformations, carried into effect with varying tempos since the beginning of the era of industrial revolutions, has disrupted a certain number of human societies: societies which the ethnologists often call “modern” in opposing them to those labeled “traditional.”

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 8 , Issue 31 , September 1960 , pp. 56 - 67
Copyright
Copyright © 1960 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

References

1. This text represents the introductory report which the author was asked to present to the colloquium on "Progress in Liberty" held in Berlin from June 16 to 22, 1960.

2. L'Express, April 21, 1960.

3. "Das Anteil des Menschen am Produktions-Effekt" (French trans. in Journal de psychologie, January 15, 1928).

4. In the United States today their number clearly is declining, compared to those in the tertiary field. It will soon be the same in other developed countries.

5. Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (Vienna, 1929); French trans.: Malaise dans la civilisa tion (Paris: Denoêl & Steele, 1934).

6. Harvey Swados, "Less Work—Less Leisure," pp. 353-63 in E. Larrabee and R. Meyer sohn (eds.), Mass Leisure (Glencoe, Ill.; Free Press, 1958).

7. Cf. "Le Repartition de la population active aux U.S.A. en pourcentage du total de 1820 a 1060," in Jean Fourastié, La Civilisation de 1975 (Paris: P.V.F, 1953), p. 26.