Abstract: A sociological interpretation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s magical realist masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude reveals that it is also a book describing the social change from the traditional society to the modern society. Theories of modernity from Attorney Giddens, Leo Marx and Zygmunt Bauman et at. are employed to illustrate that Macondo has gradually claimed characteristics of modernity in that it is a society of capitalism, industrialism, bureaucracy and government control of violence. Also, the massacre in the novel is a typical example of the modern governing and bureaucracy.