What is liquid modernity?
Liquid modernity describes the phase of modernity where social structures, institutions, and individual lives are characterized by fluidity and instability. Traditional anchors of certainty—like lifelong employment, stable family units, or fixed national identities—have dissolved or become increasingly precarious. This liquidity means that change is constant, uncertainty is pervasive, and individuals must continuously navigate a world where old certainties no longer hold, and new ones are slow to form or quickly evaporate.
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