Second modernity
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Second modernity is a phrase coined by the German sociologist Ulrich Beck, and is his word for the period after modernity.
Where modernity broke down agricultural society in favour of industrial society, second modernity transforms industrial society into a new and more reflexive network society or information society (He 2012, 111 and 215).