Changing Modernity: Worldwideness and Sociality

Abstract

The article is devoted to the growing importance of worldwideness as a type of world connection and at the same time as a type of new sociality and modernity. The world­wideness has been gaining strength in opposition to worldlessness and with the sup­port of the meaning and role of sociality. The above is illustrated by the example of the ideas of A. Giddens and P. Wagner, which in different ways reveal the essence of the changes that have occurred. It is noted that globalization has rather strength­ened not worldwideness, but the connectivity of various regions, which has changed with the release of epidemics to the world level. The article reveals that the 2020 coronavirus epidemic has accelerated the transition from worldlessness to world­wideness. Any part of the world in these conditions becomes connected with the world as a whole. The article examines the changing sociality in the context of worldwide epidemics. The author believes that sociality in conditions of epi­demics can be characterized as truncated. This is the result of many restrictions im­posed on social interactions. At the same time, sociality becomes more complicated, since its cutback compensatory requires the replenishment of certain aspects of so­cial – reassociation (to use B. Latour’s term). In this regard, we note that if the state is not successful enough in its socio-economic policy during the epidemic, this leads to the growth and restoration of the archaic in the everyday life of the sociality. In ad­dition, the author comes to the conclusion that not only the renaissance of the archaic is taking place, but also the construction of new elements of artificial sociality.