Late-modern and postmodern sociological theories
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- Late-modern and postmodern sociological theories
- The enlightenment and modernity
- Max Weber
- Modernity involves:
- A move towards scientific rationality
- Gradual secularisation
- Bureacratisation
- Modernity involves:
- Max Weber
- Sociology, modernity, late modernity and postmodernity
- Late or high modernity
- Ulrich Beck and the sociology of risk
- Critics of Beck
- Taylor
- Beck's distinction between hazard and risk is dubious
- Skeggs
- Rising inequality has meant that class has an increasing impact on the opportunities people from different backgrounds have.
- Elliot
- Beck's work fails to recognise differences in power
- Taylor
- The central concern for all societies today is that of risk
- Critics of Beck
- Risk society
- Modernity introduced a range of 'risks' that no other historical period has had to face
- Reflexive modernisation
- The growth of reflexivity leads to people questioning the political and technological assumptions of modernity
- Individualism
- In modern societies, most aspects of people's lives were taken for granted.
- Ulrich Beck and the sociology of risk
- Postmodernism
- Globalisation and hybridity
- David Harvey
- 'Time-Space compression'
- The speeding up of communications so that where you are in the world becomes less significant
- 'Time-Space compression'
- Lyotard
- Attacked 'grand theories' of society as being merely big, elaborate stories, that gave comfort to people, by helping them to believe that there was some rational, existing basis to society
- Metanarratives
- Attacked 'grand theories' of society as being merely big, elaborate stories, that gave comfort to people, by helping them to believe that there was some rational, existing basis to society
- David Harvey
- There cannot be an overarching theory of society
- Globalisation and hybridity
- Lyotard
- Incredulity towards metanarratives and technical language-games
- People will no longer believe that a single theory can be used to understand the world and form the basis of perfecting it
- People will stop searching for the ultimate truth and instead search for useful knowledge ,rather than for an all-embracing theory of how to perfect the world
- People will stop searching for the ultimate truth and instead search for useful knowledge ,rather than for an all-embracing theory of how to perfect the world
- People will no longer believe that a single theory can be used to understand the world and form the basis of perfecting it
- Economic expansion and growth, and the knowledge upon which they are based, have no aim but continue to expand
- Incredulity towards metanarratives and technical language-games
- Baudrillard
- The media and the 'death of the social'
- The mass of the population expresses a lack of interest in social solidarity and in politics
- Sign-objects and the consumer society
- Consumption moves people further away from social relationships and closer to relationships with their consumer lifestyles
- Hyperreality and the simulacrum
- We now exist in a world of 'hyperreality'
- a world of image
- We now exist in a world of 'hyperreality'
- The media and the 'death of the social'
- The implications of postmodernism for social life and for sociology
- Paulski and Walters
- People no longer feel as though they belong to classses
- Crook, Paulski and Walters
- Social changes under postmodernism leads to hyperdifferentiation
- Paulski and Walters
- Evaluation
- Greg Philo and David Miller
- The emphasis on language and the media in many theories of postmodernity is dangerous because it can lead to the denial of very real suffering
- Haralambos and Holborn
- Culture is partly shaped by the capitalist economy and differences in what rich and poor can afford to consume
- Greg Philo and David Miller
- Late or high modernity
- The enlightenment and modernity
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