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Explain Modern society
-Have been undeniable changes in recent society
-Globalisation=tech improvement, political and cultural changes has led to interconnectdness and greater risk
-social media high risk, pollution
Explain Postmodernism view on society
-Baudrillard= media saturated, no one truth, ways of seeing things, PM is based on competing views of the truth eg media
-reject meta narratives such as Marxism as it's just someone's version of reality, not the truth.
-All accounts of reality are equally valid so we should celebrate diversity of views.
-critical of tv which has made it hard to distinguish between image and reality
Explain the continuation of modernity 'Late Modernity'
-Giddens-interaction is disembedded and we use reflexivity, nothing is fixed
-Globalisation has increased.
-Beck=have to modify our actions, risk society, growing individualisation, tradition does not govern how we act
Explain the view that some agree with PM but disagree a new theory is needed to understand it
-Marxists agree but do not see it as a break from the past-new phase of capitalism
-Harvey=post fordism replaced fordism due to globalisation(tech, flexible workers, relative dep called flexible accumulation)
-diversity and choice has weakened the working class, environmentalist, women's liberation, anti racism movements have emerged
Evaluate Marxist theories of PM
Marxist theories of postmodernity appear to abandon this possibility for a revolution from the enlightenment project
Evaluate theories of late modernity
-The poor are generally exposed to more environmental risks because they are more likely to live in heavily polluted areas
-too fragmented to challenge capitalism
Evaluate postmodernism
-ignores power and inequality eg media is a tool for the ruling class to dominate
-simply wrong to claim that people cannot distinguish between reality and media image
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