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Globalisation, modernity and postmodernity - Coggle Diagram
Globalisation, modernity and postmodernity
Marxist theories of postmodernity
We have moved from modertnity to postmodenrity
Flexible accumulation
Customised products promote cultural diversity
leisure, culture and identity become commodities for profit
Use of ICT and an expanded finance and service sector
Global financial markets and ICT - compression of time and space
Started in capitalist crisis in 1970s
Political changes
Jameson and Harvey
Postmodernism
Knowledge
The Enlightenment Project
Culture and identity
Criticisms
Modernity and globalisation
The characteristics of modern society
Globalisation
Technological changes
Political changes
Economic changes
Changes in culture and identity
The Enlightenment project
Explaining the changes
Do we live in a modern or postmodern society?
Does postmodernity or modernism best explain society today?
Can we achieve true knowledge to improve society?
Theories of late modernity
Giddens: reflexivity and high modernity
Reflexivity
Disembedding
Features of late modernity
Late modernity and risk
Beck - High consequence risks
Giddens and Beck - we can make rational plans based on objective knowledge to reduce risks