Glob, modernity, POMO & Marxist POMO
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- Glob, modernity, POMO & Marxist POMO
- BB
- soc = undergoing maj changes recently
- new tech & med have had maj impact on lives
- some see changes as funda shift f/ mod age to POMO age
- others disagree - change = part of mod itself
- modernity & globalisation
- theories part of 'enlight' & search for new ways to imp soc through human reason - rat & sci = help us und
- modern soc
- key chars:
- nation state
- pop have shared lang & culture - nat - imp source of id - we have country w/ boundaries & culture
- Cap
- eco of mod state based on wage labour - linked to ind & growth in wealth, mass prod using low skilled labour
- rat, sci & tech
- soc grows > sec
- individualism
- trads < imp as guides to beh, greater personal freedom can def own id
- nation state
- key chars:
- globalisation
- 'the increasing interconnections of people across national boundaries'
- undermines Durkheim as sugg worship 1 thing, this sugg lots
- 4 changes have brought glob
- technological changes
- transport devel = travel > places in few hours
- send/ receive info in few secs
- 'time-space compression' (time = smaller as things happen quicker)
- tech brought risk on glob scale e.g. terrorism
- 'time-space compression' (time = smaller as things happen quicker)
- send/ receive info in few secs
- transport devel = travel > places in few hours
- economic changes
- political changes
- in borderless world, consumers have > power than nat gov
- states have > ability to reg economy
- in borderless world, consumers have > power than nat gov
- changes in culture & id
- cultures strugg to exist in isolation
- media played key role in this - live in global culture w/ shared images
- cultures strugg to exist in isolation
- technological changes
- 'the increasing interconnections of people across national boundaries'
- POMO
- live in unstable era - image & reality - indisting
- def ourselves by what we consume
- Lyotard - no obj criteria to prove whether theory is true
- 2 consequences
- 1) enlight = dead
- 2) any theory that claims ab truth = meta narr
- rej absolut - views = merely true to those who hold them
- 2 consequences
- Simulacra
- Baudrillard
- soc = based on buy & sell of knowl inform of images & signs
- signs stand for nothing but themselves - e.g. buy designer clothes for label
- live amongst simulacra - reality = 'hyperreality'
- signs in 'hyperre' appear > real than reality - signs = meaningless
- Baudrillard
- culture, id & politics
- culture & id = diff now because of role of media in creating 'hyperre'
- media = everywhere creating endless versions of the truth
- culture = fragmented
- no longer fixed set of shared v's in soc
- culture = fragmented
- id = destabilised
- construct own id f/ wide range of media & images
- media = everywhere creating endless versions of the truth
- culture & id = diff now because of role of media in creating 'hyperre'
- EVAL
- doesn't consider how r/c can manip the media
- soc can be imp - human probs solved & political decision has impact
- impact of media - highl sig of media for culture & id
- live in unstable era - image & reality - indisting
- late modernity
- rapid changes = continuation of modernity
- enlight project = still val
- Giddens - disembedding & reflexivity
- now in state of late mod - rapid soc change happens on global scale because of disemb & refl
- no longer need face-to-face contact to interact
- trad = < imp - no lnger guides our actions - beh > individualised
- refl= response to this rise of indiv
- Beck
- late mod soc = risk soc - faces new dangers
- in past, dangers due to soc inab to control nature
- now, dangers = manufactured risks caused by hum activity e.g. global warming
- in past, dangers due to soc inab to control nature
- risk consc
- people alter lives to avoid risk e.g. use condoms
- great deal of our knowl of risk comes f/ mass media - distort
- late mod soc = risk soc - faces new dangers
- Marxist POMO
- bel in enlight & aim of disc knowl to imp soc
- soc - mod => POMO - been maj change in soc
- POMO = result of Cap - Cap prone to periodic crisis
- soc - mod => POMO - been maj change in soc
- EVAL
- is rev poss? - POMO age => frag of opp to Cap
- w/c don't realise are opp
- recent change in Cap - they expl how recent changes are linked to Cap
- Harvey - Flexible accumulation
- crisis of 70's gave rise to new regime of accum
- new way of achiev profit - this replaced mass prod sys
- involves use of ICT, job insecurity etc (job for life?)
- led to changes in consumptoin - prod such as fashion bec imp source of profit
- makes money out of our id's
- crisis of 70's gave rise to new regime of accum
- bel in enlight & aim of disc knowl to imp soc
- BB
- refl= response to this rise of indiv
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