Modernity as a Political Problem: Beyond the Modernization Paradigm

The article explores the prospects of expanding the methodological scope of the theory of Modernity. The author analyses the intrinsic features of the modernization paradigm and argues that its analytical potential is wearied out to considerable degree. Therefore, the radical revision of its basic principles and categories, primarily, of the core category of Modernity, is the pivotal issue.

Keywords: modernity, modernization paradigm, modern institutions, situational approach to the problem of Modernity, universality and multiplicity of Modernity, global and local dimensions of Modernity, globalization.