Post Modernity

Question 1

Postmodernity

Answer 1

-era after modernity
-late 70s
-accelerated after collapse of communism 1980
-influence globalisation
-diversity, lifestyle, tolerance, autonomy and individualised
-hybridity

Question 2

Lyotard

Answer 2

-metanarrative decrease as people stop believing the big story
-decline in religion and distrust in politicians
-people now create own perspective/technical language games
-small scale
-no one size fits all situation
-but hyperreality

Question 3

Baudrillard

Answer 3

-social solidarity replaced by individuals
-decline of community and spirit
-hyperreality, media misleads people into seeing signs
-images are often illusion of reality done by the media/simulacrum

Question 4

Role of the media

Answer 4

Death of the social
-media saturation helps hyper reality
-social media guides our opinion, legitimate sources
-vaccines, COVID, unstable and lack of trust/raise questions of legitimate sources
-inconsistency of norms and values/fragmented unstable

Question 5

Narratives

Answer 5

-distrust to experts/ climate change and COVID
-smaller narratives/no longer single truths
-loss of social cohesion leads to uncertainty
-structural identity such as ethnicity, gender and class less certain

Question 6

Evidence

Answer 6

Not late modern
-diverse of family and personal life
-fluidity in relationships
-hybrid culture
-globalisation
-media saturation

Question 7

Evaluations

Answer 7

-ignores structural conflict
-media and education run interest of ruling class
-deterministic, what is reality and not
-structural factors is still relevant

Question 8

Pakuiski and Waters

Answer 8

Death of class
-no longer believe people belong to a class
-race and age is also less important
-consumer society more important than class your born into

Question 9

Philo and Miller

Answer 9

-emphasis of language and media can lead to the denial of real suffering, inequality and injustice