Globalisation, modernity and postmodernity
Marxist theories of postmodernity
Postmodernism
Modernity and globalisation
Theories of late modernity
The characteristics of modern society
Globalisation
The Enlightenment project
Explaining the changes
Technological changes
Political changes
Economic changes
Changes in culture and identity
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?
Knowledge
The Enlightenment Project
Culture and identity
Criticisms
Giddens: reflexivity and high modernity
Features of late modernity
Late modernity and risk
Reflexivity
Disembedding
Beck - High consequence risks
Giddens and Beck - we can make rational plans based on objective knowledge to reduce risks
We have moved from modertnity to postmodenrity
Flexible accumulation
Jameson and Harvey
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