Postmodernist Perspective Flashcards
1
Q
Key Features of Society
Baudrillard and Lyotard
A
Media saturated society
Rapidly changing + full of uncertainties
Fragmented into a mass of individuals making own choices about life
Diversity + consumer choice are key features- disintegration of nuclear family
2
Q
Key Features of Society
How It Has Changed
A
Beck-Gernsheim and Stacey- traditional family replaced by wide diversity of relationships
Rising divorce rates, cohabitation, multiple partners, serial monogamy, births outside marriage, homosexuality- trad family replaced by ‘families of choice’
