Theory: Modernity and Globalisation
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- Created on: 10-06-13 15:03
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- Modernity and Globalisation
- Postmodernity
- Foucault: Knowledge must be guaranteed to improve society. Lyotard: Knowledge is a series of different ways of seeing the world. Bauldrillard: Hyper-reality: signs appear more real than reality. Media has caused fragmentation, while we can change identity, we can't change society.
- Postmodernity
- Overlooks how the media is manipulative, Ignores power and class inequality, People can distinguish between reality and media images, Assumes all theories are true, Hypocritical.
- Criticisms:
- Late modernity
- Giddens: interaction is more impersonal; individualistic Beck: risk society, our knowledge of risks comes from the media
- Giddens: interaction is more impersonal; individualistic Beck: risk society, our knowledge of risks comes from the media
- Criticisms:
- Ignores structural factors Rustin: Capitalism is the risk Hirst: movements are too fragmented to challenge capitalism
- Marxism
- Criticisms
- Abandons the possibility that the working class will overthrow capitalism.
- Criticisms
- Jameson and Harvey: today's society is the product of the most recent stage of capitalism. Production for niche markets promotes diversity.
- Marxism
- Criticisms
- Abandons the possibility that the working class will overthrow capitalism.
- Criticisms
- Marxism
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