T.K. Oommen - The Age of Globality is characterized by multiple modernities in a unipolar world

One global society
Technological compression of space and time reduces and reproduces distances (partly envisaged by Simmel) but also creates new distancies resp. of the availability of the technologies in different areas.

(the colonial period was characterizes by new means of transportation; the cold war era by industrial communication; and the global age by information technology)

but no global culture
The accessability and the acceptability of cultural items vary according to different regional modernities. These different modernities result from different processes of colonization.

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• Globality
• unipolar
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Modernity defined as the quality of being in the "modern world-system" would not seem to support the idea of multiple modernities. I believe there is one modernity radiating from the core zone through the incorporation of new regions in the capitalist world-economy, and the "multiple" modernities described by Oommen are varying reactions to modernity rather than modernities