Postmodernism Theory & Methods
- Created by: mizpehsardar
- Created on: 21-11-19 09:11
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- Postmodernism
- Giddens
- dis-embedding
- people's lives influenced by the global framework unlimited by time and place
- displacing national identities
- people's lives influenced by the global framework unlimited by time and place
- late modernity reflexivity
- risk society changes are continuation of modern society in an intensified form
- requires us to adapt not abandon
- risk society changes are continuation of modern society in an intensified form
- effect of media much of our world is make believe response to media images rather than real events
- dis-embedding
- Bauman
- 'liquid modernity'
- nonsense to talk of family as an institution, ever changing absurd notion
- social structures are breaking down, chaos and uncertainity
- shopping mall analogy
- walk around consuming what you want try out/ change identity
- goods bought as symbol of identity for image to portray to others
- 'liquid modernity'
- Lyotard
- post-modernism as an incredulity toward metanarrative
- people no longer believe in myth of truth
- society fragmented into lifestyles constantly changing
- no longer understood by general theories
- post-modernism as an incredulity toward metanarrative
- Baudrillard
- pick n mix identities
- media created desires/ pressures to consume
- identity no longer formed by predominant traditional factors
- Bradley
- new identities created through globalisation bring different cultures into contact
- identities adopted to meet consumer lifestyles and diversity
- new identities created through globalisation bring different cultures into contact
- media created desires/ pressures to consume
- media saturated society
- life in a postmodern era is so dominated by media imagery
- simulacra
- images which appear to reflect real world things but has no basis in reality
- hyperreality
- distorted view of world event in media more real than reality
- pick n mix identities
- Giddens
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