PATTERNS AND TRENDS = POSTMODERNISTS Flashcards

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what does postmodernists argue about social class?

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  • class is losing its significance in contemporary society
  • older theoruiest no longer relevant
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what does Pakulski and Malcolm argue ?

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  • 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.
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what does Beck argue?

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  • 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
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who used the term risk society

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Beck

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explain risk society

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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.

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postmodernists theorists names

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