From socialization to individuality in the modernization process

Abstract

Although modernity started as a Western process, it influenced the other parts of the world. Modern societies faces the problem of individual human beings’ alienation to their self, society and the nature. Today people is being transformed from sociality into individuality, and then into a simple imaginary image, which forces him/her to destroy his connection with physical, emotional, psychological and social dimensions. Individuality is the state or quality of being an individual; particularly of being a person separate from other people and possessing their own needs or goals, rights and responsibilities. From the 17th century on, individual indicates separateness, as in individualism. Being a modern country means taking the problems of modernity as well as its positive results. Modernity has brought to individuals some drastic results as well. Today people live in a very risky environment, they do not feel themselves secure, they are more narcisistic, they are more isolated, their relations are very temporary and artificial, they are alienated to themselves, to each other and to their environment.