Situating Globalization and Modern Society

Globalization has a deep history associated with the emergence of modernity and how aging is experienced. Indeed, the rise of modernity has been defined by a number of historical processes, including the Atlantic Slave Trade and attendant institutions of slavery and European colonization of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The idea of modernity evokes the development of capitalism and industrialization, as well as the establishment of nation-states and the growth of regional disparities in the World system. The period has witnessed a host of social and cultural transformations. Significantly, racial categories emerged during this epoch as two fundamental axes along which people were exploited and societies stratified.