the world: between the church and the marketplace. Protestantism valued the aspect that everything man did was in sight of God, and therefore man should take a greater initiative in his work and work ethics. "Work was to be pursued with a fitting seriousness and order, in a spirit of rational enterprise that eschewed waste and frivolous adventurism (Britannica.com)." The Protestant reformation in a sense was the launch of modern capitalism.The Protestant Reformation can also be attributed to the underlying start of the advanced development of modern science. In this time, people began to steer away from religion and religious based thinking and looked towards science for answers. Effectively, it is in the shift from religion to science that was fuel to the leaps of modernity. Scientific methods of observation, experimentation, theory and discovery were practiced--thought, at first, not considered beyond skepticism and scrutiny by most of society. These scientific changes and advancements allowed people to expand and modernize--to look out progressively.Modernity impacted all realms of society. A transformation was made in the basic core structure of modern society. Rather than the group or community, it was the individual that became most important. Where one would once have thought about the good of the village, that person might then be thinking about the better good of himself. Another change occurred in the division of labor. Which once was the main unit of production, the family (in peasant society) transformed and shifted to modern institutions that performed specific and specialized tasks. Society also underwent the establishment and impact of governing institutions. Rather than persons being guided by custom or tradition, modern general rules and regulations were implemented. The legitimacy of these rules stemming from methods and finding in science (Ibid.). Modernity, effectively led to and was in the pnumbra of the industrial...
