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postmoderism
what is it?
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Postmodernists reject meta-narratives (big stories) such as Functionalism and Marxism, which attempt to explain society within one theory and attempt to convince people there is a rational, existing basis to society
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criticisms
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Social class, gender and ethnicity still form significant parts of our identity.
modernity
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people left rural communities to work in new cities. they had to adjust to a different lifestyle, work, bosses and different kinds of relationships
many sociologists would suggest that these chnages created a new society commonly know as the modern world or MODERNITY.
key feature: Industrialisation, Urbanisation, Centralised
Government, Rational, Scientific
Thinking.
led to: new theories (meta-narratives or big stories)
competed to explain modern world
theories called for more social progress
marx (modernist) point was to not just explain the world but to change it
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Giddens: Reflexivity
According to Giddens we are now at the stages of late or high modernity.
A defining characteristic of modern society is that it experiences rapid change – often on a global scale. 2 key features responsible
Disembedding = the lifting out of social relations from local contexts of interaction – ie we no longer need face to face contact in order to interact – geographical barriers have been broken down – made interaction more impersonal. Tradition and custom less important individualism has grown, this forces us to be reflexive.
Reflexivity = means we are all continually revaluating our ideas and theories – nothing is fixed of permanent – culture becomes unstable and subject to change
Late Modernity
Unlike PM, theories of late modernity argue that the changes we are experiencing are not the dawn of a new PM era but a continuation of Modernity itself.
- Key features of modernity have become intensified e.g. social change.
Beck: Risk Society
Beck believes in the power of reason to create a better world. However he believes that today late modern or ‘risk’ society faces new kinds of dangers:
Manufactured dangers
Beck also sees late modernity as a time of growing individualism – reflexive modernisation – as a result risk consciousness becomes central to our culture.
Postmodernity
In the past 20 years some Sociologists have identified trends or developments, which they claim, show that modernity is fragmenting and being replaced by the postmodern world
WORK
- no longer determined by mass factory production in which people work side by side
- work today is based on the service sector, dominated by information processing jobs
- ideas about work have also changes, people are less likely to stay in a life-long job, more likely to accept range of flexible practise - eg. part time
CULTURE
- fashion, film, advertising and music industries have become essential for how we organise our lives
- society has grown wealthier
- media-saturation means that we have the media available on how to makeover most aspects of our lives
- consumption is essential to finding features in our lives
- postmodernism is about contrasting styles fitting together
IDENTITY
- old me is about where i came from, class background and family
- new me is about designer labels and being seen in right places, car, music and clothes
- style over substance
GLOBALISATION
- TNCs are companies that are world-known
- globalisation= internationally recognised symbols
- globalisation is challenging the importance of rational and local culture
- info tech and electronic communication (email, internet) have alos been part of the process.
KNOWLEDGE
- people are cynical of the idea that science has the power to change the world.
truth may be considered unattainable and irrelevant because knowledge, ideas and lifestyles relative
- different yet equal authentic values can be possible