Post Modernism
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- Created on: 12-11-19 20:32
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- Post Modernism
- Technology
- Losing faith in the ability of science and technology to solve problems
- Effects of pollution, global warming and nuclear power as a result of technology
- Losing faith in politics - Is the NHS able to provide for everyone?
- People have turned to spirituality and alternative medicines
- Images and Values
- Domination of technology, bringing the world into our homes
- Diverse ideas and values that have little connection with our present and past lives
- constantly changing values, trends and lifestyles which lead to unstable and fragmented culture
- Economies based on consumption of services (employed in financial, retail and personal services)
- Globalisation
- most goods consumed are manufactured abroad
- made the world a smaller place (goods, people, services and ideas cross borders and societies are interdependent
- Identities
- people construct their own identities rather than taking a role
- people having a variety of choices means they can change their identities in different situations
- causes instability and fragility
- means it doesn't provide a firm foundation
- causes instability and fragility
- Defintion
- Era of modernity came to an end in the late 20th century, an we are now moving into a new kind of social world
- Modernity was a result of the industrialisation and modern machine technology, but postmodernism is centred on computers and digital communications and mass media
- Many post-modernists disagree within the theory
- Jean-Francois Lyotard believed that we should abandon the idea of explanations involving "meta-narratives" or grand theories, such as Marxism or Functionalism
- Question assumptions in Marxisms and functionalism as they assume roles, whereas society is now majoritively down to individual decisions
- Jean-Francois Lyotard believed that we should abandon the idea of explanations involving "meta-narratives" or grand theories, such as Marxism or Functionalism
- Evaluation
- Take into consideration changes in current society
- Focuses on personal identities and accepting that we cannot just be defined by a set of factors
- Seems to undermine the view that through sociology and science we can understand the world more logically
- Based on systematic research that shows an understanding, rather than a set of ideas base on opinions
- Most sociologists do not agree that social structures no longer matter, as identities are not freely chosen
- Technology
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