This is my abstract to the confrecne on :
COMPARING PROCESSES OF MODERNIZATION. LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCES IN ISLAMIC AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Individual patterns of behavior: Battle of Tradition and Modernity
Ali A. Saeidi
Assistant Prof. of Sociology
University of Tehran, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Welfare Studies
saeidi@ut.ac.ir

Abstract

There is a battle between modernity and tradition. It is difficult to understand the experience of the late modernity without looking at the essence of this clash, and what it has meant in our lives today. The main objective of this paper is to discuss one of the fascinating aspects of what's occurring in the process of modernity and its effects on tradition. The paper will argue that the growth of individual patterns of behavior has been overlooked collective feature of tradition. Personal rituals bring us into contact with one of the most pervasive features of what it's like to live an everyday life in a contemporary society. Discussing Freud and Foucault arguments on obsession and compulsion, the paper will discuss these actions as the features of late modernity contrast with social land collective features of tradition to exist. Likewise, the paper will argue whether this sense of modernity, i.e., the ever-increasing personal pattern of behavior is a real problem confronting us whereby everyday life has become de-traditionalised. The paper finally will analyse that this change is a bleak side of the emancipatory of modernity as it is something we are all grappling with in our personal lives.

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