Modern theorists, however, tend to see this as an unsatisfactory generalisation.

Modern theorists were focused on achieving progress and believed in the existence of natural and social laws which could be used universally to develop knowledge and thus a better understanding of society.

Modern theorists of local civic economies, including Robert J. Oakerson and Jane Jacobs, argue that cities reflect a clash of values, especially of tolerances versus preferences, with views of the city varying from a pure community to that of a pure marketplace.

Modern events such as the September 11th attacks have likewise been compared to the fire by conspiracy theorists who doubt whether Al Qaeda was behind the attacks.

Skeptics argue that the demonization of Western esotericism by conspiracy theorists is rooted in religious intolerance but also in the same moral panics that have fueled witch trials in the Early Modern period, and satanic ritual abuse allegations in the United States.

Still, " it is striking that a rather diverse lot of contemporary evolutionary theorists, most of whom regard themselves as supporters of the Modern Synthesis, have of late become ' Baldwin boosters '" ( p. 4 ).

Modern conspiracy theorists like Nesta Webster and William Guy Carr believe that Robison's book described what the Illuminati may have started was the template for the subversion of otherwise benign organizations by radical groups through the 19th and 20th centuries.

Modern technology ( the internet and cheaper home printing ) has also influenced board games via the phenomenon of print-and-play board games that you buy and print yourself.

* Modern printing technology, such as laser printers and inkjet printers, can adequately reproduce all three.

Modern crossbow sights often use similar technology to modern firearm sights, such red dot sights and telescopic sights.

Modern day control engineering ( also called control systems engineering ) is a relatively new field of study that gained a significant attention during 20th century with the advancement in technology.

Modern computer technology was developed mostly in the English-speaking countries, so data formats, keyboard layouts, etc.

Modern air warfare technology and the invention of the atomic bomb had changed the importance of the military base.

Modern technology has located and increased the availability of much of the underground water.

Modern computer technology has resulted in many variations on the slot machine concept.

Modern Uyghur medical hospitals adopted modern medical science and medicine and adopted evidence-based pharmaceutical technology to traditional medicines.

Modern technology allows multiple physical servers with either different ( cf.

Modern electrometers based on vacuum tube or solid-state technology can be used to make voltage and charge measurements with very low leakage currents, down to 1 femtoampere.

Modern cables use only optical fiber technology to carry digital payloads, which carry telephone, Internet and private data traffic.

Modern " crossbar switches " are usually implemented with semiconductor technology.

Modern technology has allowed machines to enhance human-power.

Modern light rail technology is flexible and adaptable, and whether any given system is considered a true rapid transit system or not depends on its characteristics.

Modern light rail technology has primarily German origins, since an attempt by Boeing Vertol to introduce a new American light rail vehicle was a technical failure.

Modern technology such as railroads and gas lamps were conveniences which the rising bourgeoisie could enjoy in their leisurely lifestyle.

Modern wire wrapping technology was developed after WWII at Bell Laboratories as a means of making electrical connections in a new relay being designed for use in the Bell Telephone system.

Modern engineers have put forward a plausible hypothesis for the statue construction, based on the technology of those days ( which was not based on the modern principles of earthquake engineering ), and the accounts of Philo and Pliny who both saw and described the remains.

Modern sails are manufactured with a combination of broadseaming and non-stretch fabric ( ref New technology below ).

Modern technology changed the job of the modern logger considerably.

Modern computer technology considerably speeds up the process of reassembling shredded documents.

Modern surveys generally use magnetometers with GPS technology to automatically record the magnetic field and their location.

Modern technology has improved component and frame designs, and many tandems are as well-built as modern high-end road and off-road bikes.

Modern technology has been utilised to show visitors the normally inaccessible interior of Bat Cave, where thousands of bats breed each year.

Modern Kabbalah developed by Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, in his writings about the future generation, focuses on how society could achieve an altruistic social framework.

Modern knighthoods are typically awarded in recognition for services rendered to society: services which are not necessarily martial in nature.

Cultural and technological developments transformed European society, concluding the Late Middle Age and beginning the Early Modern period.

In the psychology of Carl Jung, myths are the expression of a culture or society ’ s goals, fears, ambitions and dreams ( Indick, “ Classical Heroes in Modern Movies: Mythological Patterns of the Superhero ", 93-95 ).

In general, Modern Orthodoxy holds that Jewish law is normative and binding, while simultaneously attaching a positive value to interaction with contemporary society.

Modern socialism originated from an 18th-century intellectual and working class political movement that criticised the effects of industrialisation and private property on society.

Modern buildings, modern security and being locally sited to help with reintegration into society once medication has stabilized the condition are often features of such units.

" Modern scholarship has pointed out that this particular set of divinities belongs to rituals of marking out sacred space and fixing boundaries, religious developments hypothesized to have occurred during the transition from pastoralism to an agrarian society.

: Modern bourgeois society, with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

In general, Modern Orthodoxy's " overall approach .. is the belief that one can and should be a full member of modern society, accepting the risks to remaining observant, because the benefits outweigh those risks ".

David V. Barrett, author of Secret Societies: From the Ancient and Arcane to the Modern and Clandestine, uses slightly different terms to define what does and does not qualify as a secret society.

Modern Islamic philosophy has, in response to challenges of secular science and concerns that secular society is unwilling or unable to limit its uses of " dangerous technology ", especially nuclear weapon or biotechnology, begun to look at the origins of science to determine what ethics or limits can or should be imposed, and what goals or visions are appropriate for science.

In 1939 Toynbee wrote, " The challenge of being called upon to create a political world-order, the framework for an economic world-order ... now confronts our Modern Western society.

It developed as a compendium ( with multiple authorship ) from Philosophical Considerations Touching the Being of Witches and Witchcraft ( 1666 ), addressed to Robert Hunt, a Justice of the Peace active from the 1650s against witches in Somerset ( where Glanvill had his living at Frome ); the 1668 version A Blow at Modern Sadducism promoted the view that the judicial procedures such as Hunt's court offered should be taken as adequate tests of evidence, because to argue otherwise was to undermine society at its legal roots.

The discontinuation of his painting gave him time for writing, and he successively produced The Intellectual Life ( 1873 ), perhaps the best known and most valuable of his writings ; Round my House ( 1876 ), notes on French society by a resident ; and Modern Frenchmen ( 1879 ), admirable short biographies.

Modern Germany: society, economy, and politics in the twentieth century ( 1987 ) ACLS E-book online

Great strides also were made in education and, in an effort to help unify Chinese society, in a program to popularize Modern Standard Chinese and overcome other varieties of Chinese.

Wells viewed war as the inevitable result of the Modern State ; the introduction of atomic energy in a world divided resulted in the collapse of society.

It was feared that society was being divided into a well-educated middle class elite and a working class trapped in the Modern schools, or " eggheads and serfs ".

Beginning her career as an author in the 1920s, Lady Listowel produced a volume of short stories about Hungarian society, as well as other works including: This I Have Seen ( 1943 ), which was an account of her early life, " Crusader In The Secret War " ( 1952 ), an account of the activities of Jan Kowalewski during WW2, Manual of Modern Manners ( 1959 ) The Modern Hostess ( 1961 ), which attracted widespread attention, The Making of Tanganyika ( 1965 ) and Dusk on the Danube ( 1969 ).

The Estates of the realm were the broad social orders of the hierarchically conceived society, recognized in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period in Christian Europe ; they are sometimes distinguished as the three estates: the clergy, the nobility, and commoners, and are often referred to by medieval ranking of importance ( as the hierarchy was ordained by God ) as the First, Second, and Third Estates respectively.

Modern observers might describe Sparta as a totalitarian or one-party state, although the details we know of its society come almost exclusively from Sparta's enemies.