Late modernity (or liquid modernity) is a term that has been used to describe the condition or state of some highly developed present day societies. It regards their state as a continuation or development of modernity, rather than as a distinct new state, post-modernity.
'Late modernity is defined by complex, global capitalist economies and a shift from state support and welfare to the privatisation of services...a process fuelled by the information revolution, the capacity to move capital and information around the world instantaneously'.
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