PMC Flashcards
(Nicholson 1990)
Feminist critique of Lyotards PMC: if the pluralism of truths of real then you loose the standpoint of inequality (Gender) which occurs in most societies
(Callinicos 1990)
Marxist critique of Lyotards PMC: The idea that universal truths have diminished disregards the fact that the primacy of the economy reamins (mostly) universal throughout societies
(Giddens and Beck 1994)
Reflexive modernist critique of Lyotards PMC: social cohesion and solidarity cannot exist without at least some shared values
(Smart 2016)
Neo-conservative critique of Lyotards PMC: the PMC attempts to undermine our identity with a fake and flaky image
(Courtenay 2000)
males have worse health and life expectancy
(Back et al 2010)
males are more likely to become drug addicts
(Walklate 2013)
males are more likely to go to prison
(Office for national statistics 2018)
8.6% gender pay gap in 2018
(Pakulski and Waters 1996)
death of socio-economic class
(Townley 1993)
Plurality of theories on the source and nature of power in modern society
(Bandura 2000)
Everyone wants to believe that they are acting morally, and partakes in moral disengagement when they act against this internal moral code
When was the great acceleration?
around 1945
(Freud 1957)
Primacy Narcissism states that we must first love ourselves -> PMC suggests that this is being eroded as society becomes functionalised (lose time to reflect on society). Lyotard states that humans narcissism serves complexification (Lyotard 1992)
Potential legitimising criteria
performability, consensus, parology (searching for errors/flaws)
(Jones 2003)
If the PMC is true then can any macro social theorist be anything more than an armchair theory?
Lyotards writing becomes challenging to read as it swaps from descriptive to prescriptive interchangeably
Where does the dehumanising effects occur?
All subgroups develop their own discourse due to specialisation. This means that there is no single discourse to connect all of society meaning that efficiency replaces community making society to function in a mechanical way (Language games)
What causes the meta-narrative of modernity to become fragmented?
industrialisation of genocide, globalisation, information proliferation, specialisation, fragmentation of language, failure of the previous meta-narrative
(Callinicos 1989)
Criticisms against the meta-narrative may be as old as the enlightenment era itself
(Best and Kellner 1991)
Lyotard lumps all large narratives together which does violence towards the diversity of the narrative in his own culture
(Smart 1999)
The modern project has not been abandoned, but its confidence has been eroded by a direct consequence of the objective of modernity itself.
