PATTERNS AND TRENDS = POSTMODERNISTS

Question 1

what does postmodernists argue about social class?

Answer 1

• class is losing its significance in contemporary society
• older theoruiest no longer relevant

Question 2

what does Pakulski and Malcolm argue ?

Answer 2

• in advance capitalist societies people are now stratified by cultural rather than economic differences. people see themselves much more as individual’s than as part of a social class.

Question 3

what does Beck argue?

Answer 3

• class conflicts of early industrial society concerned the distribution of wealth because many were in poverty but in modern societies its advanced and their materials have increased
• risks affect everyone rich and poor
• people have become an individual

Question 4

who used the term risk society

Answer 4

Beck

Question 5

explain risk society

Answer 5

central problem of society is no longer creating and distributing wealth by managing the risks created by science and technology such as nuclear energy or pollution.

Question 6

postmodernists theorists names

Answer 6

1. pakulski and Malcolm = cultural rather than economic differences
2. Beck = risk society / individua’s