Postmodernity

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Language games are important and are used so people can try to assert that things are true/right. People no longer believe reason can conquer superstition, that humans can be perfected or that communism can produce a perfect society.
Lyotard
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Knowledge is central to postmodernity. The buying and selling of material goods has been replaced by the buying and selling of signs and images. Signs develop and bear no resemblance to any reality (hyper-reality).
Baudrillard
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5 main features of current popular culture that reflect postmodern influences e.g breakdown of the distinction between culture and society and emphasis on style at the expense of substance and content
Strinati
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Believes we are now in a society that is 'late modern'. People do things internationally.
Giddens
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Risk society
Beck
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Knowledge is central to postmodernity. The buying and selling of material goods has been replaced by the buying and selling of signs and images. Signs develop and bear no resemblance to any reality (hyper-reality).

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Baudrillard

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5 main features of current popular culture that reflect postmodern influences e.g breakdown of the distinction between culture and society and emphasis on style at the expense of substance and content

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Believes we are now in a society that is 'late modern'. People do things internationally.

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Risk society

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