Postmodernist view
- Created by: annagaskell
- Created on: 24-04-19 16:15
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- Postmodernism
- modernity
- national state manages own economy
- heavily industrial lifelong jobs
- predictable identity
- rationalisation and disenchantment
- science is a good force
- postmodernism
- national state replaced by globalisation (EU)
- lack of faith in meta narratives
- science causes social problems (pollution)
- hyper- reality
- wider consumer choice
- consumption, media is major source of identity
- Foucault
- unstable, fragmented, media saturated world
- media and reality are indistinguishable
- cant be sure knowledge is correct therefore cant be used to improve society
- Lyotard
- we should celebrate diversity
- prevents monopoly of truth
- allows marginalised to have their views heard
- Baudrillard
- now theres a buying and selling of knowledge through images and signs
- knowledge based on symbols which aren't based in reality
- media results in a fragmented culture which undermines faith and meta narratives
- Giddens alternative- late modernity
- disembedding
- able to interact w/o face to face
- reflexivity
- as tradition no longer tells us how to act we have to reflect on our actions
- disembedding
- Becks risk society
- rapid social change and globalisation
- man made risks
- led to an attempt to make the world better
- Marxist theories
- flexible accumulation led to diversity and instablitiy
- lesuire supports rich
- society will have changed for the better when the WC overthrow
- flexible accumulation led to diversity and instablitiy
- evaluation
- philo and miller
- ignores power and inequality
- those in poverty don't have the power to change
- self defeating
- pessimistic
- modernity
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