Postmodernity and Late modernity

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Postmodernity developed late 1950's, changes relate to technology, science and changes in language. Language games are used to assert things are true/right. Each statement is a move which aids winning the game (getting version of truth accepted).
Lyotard
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Knowledge is central to postmodernity. Buying and selling of material goods replaced by buying and selling of signs. Things are more associated with images than any substance that may lie behind them - develops so much bears no resemblance to reality
Baudrillard
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5 main features of popular culture that reflect postmodernity - breakdwon of distinction between culture and society and high and popular culture, emphasis on style at expense of substance, confusion over time and space, decline of meta-narratives
Strinati
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In a society that is 'late modern' - now face a number of high consequence risks, tradition and custom are less important, relationships take place over time and space led to disembedding. No longer need face-to-face contact to interact
Giddens
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Late modernity is period of growing individualism in which we become reflexive. Tradition is no longer important. Now think for ourselves and reflect on consequences of actions - reflexive modernisation. Risk consciousness becomes increasingly common
Beck
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Criticism of postmodernity - ignores power and inequality. Postmodernists are wrong to claim we can't distinguish between reality and media image
Philo and Miller
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Postmodernism is a weak theory - it fails to explain how features of society came about
Best and Kellner
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