Postmodernism

p1 society is post modern and its positive thing

lyotard-evyone is right now ina pcik anf mix society anf metanarratives are bad

eval- if ebything is right wbat about exttemsiosm and foucalt- there should be multiple discourses but eveyone agrees with lytard

Strengths

• highlighted importanct cultural changes

• empahsises that the construction of identity has becoem more fluid and complex process with pick n maix lifestyles

• provides insights into contemporary social changes

• challneges metarnarratives and influences new theories such as differences feminism

Weaknesses

• it is all criticism and sees no knwodge of vision as any better than any other, lacka ways to improve issues in society such as widespread poverty

• overempahsises the infleunce of mass media and assumd peopel are passive and easiyl duped and maniuplated by the media

• exxagerates the extent and scale of social change

• choice needs money and not everyoen can afford to buy new identities constantly

• it is still a metanarrative

post modernity or late modernity ?

• late modernity refers to a stage of modern society characterised by rapid social change , globalisation AND INCREASINF INDIVIDUALISATION

• giddens argues modernity has nto ended and has just become more dynamic with individuals having a greater agency due to reflexivity

• beck expands on this with the idea of a ‘risk society’ where technological advancemnts have introduced new global risks such as global warming leading ot environmentalism

• critics argue thatnot everyone has an equal opportunity to reshape our lives as suggested by relexivity

• rustin argues it is capitalism that creates risk and not tecnology

p2 society is post modern but its not good

baudrillard- hyperrreality and simulacra people have blurred lines and leads to instability in society eg people campaigned for wrongul imprsionment of diedre barlow but she was only a tv character

p3 society is not post modern just ina alte stage

back risk society, giddens, modern refelxivity

eval rustin- science didnt destroy society it was captilaism

p4- soceit is postmodern but marxist view

jameson- societty i spost modern bu thats jsut another stage of captilaism where evthhign is now commodified and frgamneted

eval- oppositional movmtn may be a pstive thign now as working calss have more rep