Post-Modernism VS Late-Modernity

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What are the six key features of Modernity?
1) Industrialisation 2) Social Class 3) Urbanisation 4) Extended state or government influence 5) Scientific or rational thinking 6) Development of metanarrative.
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What are the seven features of Post-Modernism?
1) Chaos, uncertainity and collapse of social structures 2) Globalisation 3) Metanarratives and the 'myth of truth' 4) Choice, identity and consumption 5) A media saturated society 6) Pick 'n' mix identities 7) You are what you buy.
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What is a strength of Post-Modernity?
It has highlighted some important cultural changes, particularly in the areas of the media, culture and identity.
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Define Reflexivity
refers to the way that the knowledge poeple gain about society can affect the way they behave in it, as people (and institutions) reflect what they do and how they do it.
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What did Giddens say?
He does not dispute the change in society that post-modernists identify as having occurred, however he says that these changes have not brought us into a new era of postmodernity but into what he calls late-modernity.
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1) Chaos, uncertainity and collapse of social structures 2) Globalisation 3) Metanarratives and the 'myth of truth' 4) Choice, identity and consumption 5) A media saturated society 6) Pick 'n' mix identities 7) You are what you buy.

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What are the seven features of Post-Modernism?

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It has highlighted some important cultural changes, particularly in the areas of the media, culture and identity.

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refers to the way that the knowledge poeple gain about society can affect the way they behave in it, as people (and institutions) reflect what they do and how they do it.

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Card 5

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He does not dispute the change in society that post-modernists identify as having occurred, however he says that these changes have not brought us into a new era of postmodernity but into what he calls late-modernity.

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