Postmodernity

Question 1

Outline the key features of modernity

Answer 1

• nation state (power)
• capitalism (ownership)
• rationality (science)
• individualism (independent)

Question 2

Explain the impact of the main features of globalisation

Answer 2

• technological changes
• economic changes (money never sleeps)
• political changes (borderless)
• changes in culture (westernised)

Question 3

Explain postmodernism’s views on knowledge (Baudrillard)

Answer 3

no longer based on
production of goods but
buying and selling of knowledge, no relation to reality.

Question 4

Postmodernism’s views on culture, identity, and politics

Answer 4

postmodern subjects have multiple and fragmented identities.
- adopt new ways of speaking
- politics less about social class, but identity

Question 5

Explain how late modernity is different from postmodernity

Answer 5

• new era of postmodernism, enlightenment project to improve society

Question 6

Explain Giddens concepts reflexivity + disembedding

Answer 6

reflexivity= nothing is fixed/ permanent everything up to challenge

disembedding= dont need face to face contact to interact

Question 7

Why does Beck believe late modernity includes a ‘risk society’

Answer 7

Risk Consciousness: more aware of risks to ourselves aim to avoid and minimise them.
+ individualisation (think for selves, not tradition)

Question 8

Marxists belief of a period of postmodernism and a new stage of capitalism

Answer 8

see postmodern society as the product of the most recent stage of capitalism

Question 9

Evaluate theories of late and post modernity

Answer 9

• ignores how the poor are limited from opportunities
• ignores role of capitalism