Comprehensive Summary: Modernization, Craftwork, & Indigenous Culture

This assignment provides a summary of readings across three weeks, focusing on the indigenous effects of modernization, the importance of craftwork, and the adoption of indigenous thinking. The first week explores how modernization changes societal thinking, affecting welfare and creating complex structures, with critiques on its imperialistic and colonial approaches. The second week emphasizes the development of artistic craftwork skills and the integration of machines, discussing both positive and negative impacts of craftsmanship. The third week delves into the adoption of indigenous cultures, highlighting the importance of respecting diverse cultures and promoting equality, while also examining the relationship between ideology and ontology. The overall theme emphasizes the need for understanding and adapting to cultural changes in a modernizing world.

Summary of the readings
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Table of Contents
Summary of readings on 1st week................................................................................................3
Summary of readings on 2nd week..............................................................................................3
Summary of readings on 3rd week................................................................................................3
Reference list:..............................................................................................................................4
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Summary of readings on 1st week
The author tries to focus on the indigenous effects of modernization in the society. It has been
stated that modernization has changed way of thinking in the society. This has affected on the
welfare of the society. The author states that development of the society leads to increase of
more innovative and complex structures in the society. This affect welfare of the society and
people becomes more complex in the modern world. It reflects on the ideology for creating a
more modern world and creating a complex structure (Camacho, 2018). The principle of
innovation in the market provided a increase in the complex structure thinking of people in the
society. This provides a negative image for the culture adopted by the people and provides a
negative impact in the market. The author focuses on affects of providing a more imperialistic
and colonial approach for conducting operations of the environment. It can be seen that imperial
and colonialism also hampers regulation of functions in the market (Candiani, 2017). This affects
mind of the people in the market and encourages imperialism and colonial way of thinking. The
author stars that modernization provides a bad impression on the architecture and other areas in
the market. There is a severe criticization made by the author on the evolution of modernization
in the society. It asses negative situations arise due to colonization practices made by the people.
The author signifies that modernization is not in the hands of the people. It is caused with
evolution of time in the market. The modernization affects self actualization of people and makes
a significant difference in the thinking of the people (Cuéllar and Prieto, 2017 ). It focuses on
development of the human through various stages in life. The modernization and development of
the minds of human beings are inter related to each other. It focuses on the assessment of effect
of the two one another. The author discusses on creating of modernization as a correct way of
providing momentum to industrial revolution in the society. There are positive effects of the
modernization principle which develops architecture and other structures in the modern way. It is
a advanced way of develop the society in the society. This is essential for overall development of
the society and provides a impact on the minds of the people. The development of technology
provides a greater innovation in development of architecture and other structural patterns in the
society. It introduces social and technological changes in the market. This adds to growth in the
technology and creates various opinions in the minds of people. Modernization and
decolonization is interrelated to each other. They are useful in assessing change for the future. It
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helps to asses needs for understanding way of thinking of the people in adapting new changes in
the market. This is aimed for future growth of the way of the thinking by the people. It focuses
on creation of new ideas to adapt to the new technology and provides solutions for assessing
needs for developing the technology in the future.
Summary of readings on 2nd week
The author focuses on importance of craftwork developed for people in the society. It provides a
brief analysis for developing artistic craftwork for people and provides new ways of developing
things in the future. The author talks about development of necessary artistic and crafts skills for
improvising things and creating more innovating objects in the future. It is essential for
understating concept of increased craftsmanship work for innovative thinking in the people. The
craftsmanship skills have to be developed by continuous innovation in practicing of new skills by
the people. It can be increased by complete understanding nature of work and preparing someone
for the future. The author states that model of craftsmanship can be developed by working with
machines in a innovative way. It provides a sense of enlightenment and encourages people to
perform more hard work in the future (de Matos et al., 2018). This provides a basis for practicing
innovating procedures in the society. It is helpful in assessing needs for providing advanced
technological work b performing craftsmanship skills in the society. The author stated that
people thought that there would be a problem in handling of evolved machines and completing
work in time. In the latter part, people found that evolution of the technology has helped to
provide new things for the development of the society. There were several negative effects of the
craftsmanship principle in the society. These can also have loss of life for the people involved in
the crafts work. It can influence way of thinking for the people for creating a new thinking for
people (de Melo Júnior and Boeger, 2015). There are several consequences observed by the
author in various times in the society. It helps to provide a strong connection among the two and
helps to analyse overall readings of the technology in the society. This helps to improve the
impact of technology in the society.
It can be stated that principle of craftsmanship work has evolved with gradual passing of time. It
has drastically changed way of perception of adopting craftsmanship principle for the sake of the
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society. The craftsmanship can be defined as procedures used by the people to make several
advancements in the environment. It provides a positive impression on the minds of the people
and develops new skills for preparing advanced materials in the future. The technological
advance provides a competitive advantage in the market and changed way of thinking of the
people. It causes several connections by influencing principle of craftsmanship and creating
policies for providing standard materials for the people (Yi, 2016). This is essential for
development of craftsmanship principles and creating additional opportunities in the future. The
principle of craftsmanship is dependent on working with the machines in a radical way. It
provides an anticipated and emancipatory challenge for the skilled workers. There is a necessity
for developing right principles for analyzing craftsmanship skills and anticipating future losses in
the society. It provides a connection between performances of the craftsmanship skills and
attaining objectives of the people (De Raedt, 2018). The craft workers have took up various
challenges for handling machines and providing a new work concept for the employees. It helps
to asses work of the craftsmanship workers for assessing future.
Summary of readings on 3rd week
The author focuses on adoption of indigenous thinking and develops a ideology for practicing
concept of encouraging new way of analysing effect of culture. It focuses on providing a respect
and development of possible procedures for respecting each other culture. The author provides a
basis of understanding new way of practicing various cultures. The indigenous cultures provide a
significant importance on the development of the adoption of materialistic conditions (Peyton
and Dyce, 2017). It helps to possibly asses a perfect relationship between ideology and ontology
practice in the society. The concept of ontology and ideology is dependent on each other. It
provides a correct analysis of the experiences observed by the authors in various field like
materialistic objects for the people (Ferre-Aracil et al., 2015). The challenging is considered to
be a vital attempt for providing a explicit view in terms of creating a new experience for the
people. There are various traditions and cultures in the society. There has to be equal acceptance
of the people in accepting people from various cultures in the society. The author focuses on
various perspectives of the people to focus on providing a view on treatment of people based on
various gender and castes in the society. It focuses on treating of various people in different ways
in different cultures in the market (Tun, 2016). The concept of race ideology is interrelated with
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treating of people in a correct procedure. It can be observed from the study that more focus is
given by the author about methods adopted for treating people in various ways. The study helps
to analyse various patterns or ways for treating people on the basis of caste and religion.
The study is useful in assessing need for understanding principle of equality and treating people
same way irrespective of caste and religion. It helps to provide a new pattern of thinking for
analysing correct techniques in adaption of realistic ideas (Madambi and Mangena, 2016). The
author focuses on analyzing importance on conveying a superior image for affecting lives of
people in a economical, spiritual and intellectual process. This is essential for analyzing principle
of respecting different cultures in the world and adopting a modernizing approach in the future
(Conant and Bronzo, 2016). It helps to provide a brief insight about regulation of correct
procedures adopted in indigenous approach for treating humans equally (Walker et al., 2015).
The study is essential for understanding importance of respecting culture and displaying a lot of
significance behind ideology of accepting the principle. It helps to develop mutual
understandings about acceptance and approach shown by various people in different parts of the
world (Mupepi, 2017). The author provides a ideology of maintaining equal perspective
approach for understanding equality. It is useful in understanding development and way of
looking each other’s culture in a different way. There is need for accepting materialistic
experience and developing correct method of ideology for framing successful ideas in the
society. It focuses on providing a significant relationship for understanding importance of
equality in the society. This is essential for analysing importance of equality in the two scenarios
provided in the study.
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Mupepi, M., 2017. Diamonds Are Not for Forever: Talent Development at De Beers. In Effective
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