modernity vs post modernity

Question 1

what’s features of modernity

Answer 1

-work based around mining and factory work
-less opportunity for movement e.g countryside to city
- social class was a source of identity
- enlightenment period and secularisation era
- work and religion main infulence on behaviours and identities
-before globalisation people had less knowledge on other ideas of life (shared consensus)

Question 2

features of post modernity

Answer 2

-manual work and manufacturing e.g finance , telecommunications, customer service
- people moving between countries and communicate more easily
- media a source of identity, pick nd mix (create self image)
-media infulence lifestyles
- people less trusting of science
- media saturated society
- no longer set of ideas that explain everything(society too complex and fragmented)