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Modernization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (489 words) |
 | Modernization is the process of changing the conditions of a society, an organization or another group of people in ways that change the privileges of that group according to modern technology or modern knowledge. |
| This was the standard view in the social sciences for many decades with its foremost advocate being Talcott Parsons. |
| According to the Social theorist Peter Wagner, modernization can be seen as processes, and as offensives. |
| Introduction to Wagner's Parsifal (6152 words) |
| Wagner was a traveller to the East, to use Hermann Hesse's term; following the lead of Schopenhauer (on the left of the picture, holding a statue of the Buddha, one that he kept by his desk), in 1856 Wagner began to read about oriental religions, in particular those of India, Ceylon, Nepal and Tibet. |
| Wagner's increasingly emphatic and often bad-tempered denials that he had based his drama on Wolfram's epic poem, while they might overstate the case, confirm that he had not simply followed in the footsteps of the medieval poet. |
| Wagner recognized that the Grail legend, like other supposedly Christian myths, had a pagan origin; but is doubtful that any paganism remains in elements that Wagner chose for and adapted to his own purposes, from the Grail romances. |
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