Postmodernism Flashcards
What was pre industrial/modern society?
Life was stable and predicable
-People acted on tradition
-Roles and status of society were relatively fixed
What was modern society?
-Social life becomes based on rationality than traditions and teachings of religions
-As a result of this is that social life is less predictable and increased uncertainty and more rapid change introduced
What was post modern society?
Decline in rationality
-More individual choice/identity is less fixed
-Identity construction and identity fluid
-even more uncertainty and change typical of modern era
Who are our post modernist sociologist?
Anthony Giddens
Beck and Beck Gernsheim
Jean Francois Lyotard
Judith Stacey
Anthony Giddens- Plastic sexuality?
Sexuality is flexible and malleable
It’s not fixed
We don’t have sex just for reproduction any more we have it for gratification
Anthony Giddens what is confluenct love?
Individuals are looking for meaningful love
Confluent love you spending the relationship as people are meeting our needs
Giddens- reflexative self?
We reflect and change our identity depending on who we are with
Beck and Beck Gernshime- individualism?
We are made to make agonistic choices
We aren’t looking our for neighbors anymore
Spirit has died
Beck and Beck Gernsheim- conflict from choice?
We have loads of choice now, it creates conflict
Beck and Beck Gernsheim- chaotic person relationship leads to high divorce rates?
Breaking down of the nuclear family
Laws made people don’t care
Beck and Beck Gernsheim- Zombie family?
Family that are alive but have no attachment to one another, they live together but don’t interact
Hobby and leisure time aren’t spent together
Loytard- metanarritives?
things in the past are made up storys and theorys
e.g. functionalism, marxism and femenism
Loytard- fragmentation in social life?
Our life resembels different fragments
we split up in different elements
Dont know everyone in our community
Loytard- globalisation?
Interconnectedness of society
Interested in global affairs as we have become globalised
Loytard- media saturated society?
Media images dominate and distort the way we see the world
Stacey?
Family is diverse fluid and resolved
Staceys case study?
Sillicon valley
The divorse extended family
rejection of steryotpical house wives
Critics- chester neo-conventional?
Neo-conventional family is the most common type. This
is essentially the nuclear family
redefined and therefore less diversity than thought
Critics- chester life cycle?
Due the life-cycle many people will be part of a nuclear family
parents and reconstituted
families are formed from nuclear families
