Key Sociological Perspectives Postmodernism Postmodernism looks at social rapid change and how many institutions are unstable due to social uncertainty and sudden changes. It looks at how the rapid change of society has affected all social expectancies‚ and how the social norms that we once understood and expected are no longer valid‚ as the society around us is changing so much. This includes the stratification of society‚ as well as social roles and the norms‚ the intermixing of cultures‚ the
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as it embraces elements of philosophy‚ art and cultural mood. It is a reaction against modernism. “Modernism is an approach to life that humans can progress through the use of science‚ technology and rationality” (Coakley‚ 1998:30) Therefore‚ postmodernism can be described as a late 20th century style in the arts and criticism that represents a departure from
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Implications for Researching the Organisation [a] Post Fordism? i) The 1980s: Flexible Specialisation and ’Disorganised Capitalism’: Piore and Sabel (1984) argue in The Second Industrial Divide[i] that new production systems must orientate towards multi-skilling and rapid re-skilling in order to accommodate the search for shifting and newly forming niche markets in a post mass production/mass consumer world. This implies economies of scope rather than economies of scale and a more creative
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it is the era that follows Modernism‚ and designates the cultural condition of the late twentieth century. Postmodern primarily occurred in the West‚ artist offered alternatives to the high seriousness and introversion of Modernist expression. Postmodernism is also self consciously populist even to the point of inviting the active participation of the beholder. Postmodern artist bring wry skepticism to the creative act‚ less preoccupied than Modernist. Postmodernist also acknowledged art as an information
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identity within postmodernism using recommended texts. During the postmodernist era there was great emphasis on the movement of philosophy and social science as well as new influential styles of architecture‚ design and fashion. It was the development of the modernist era‚ which in the late 1950’s received criticism for being standardized and no longer suiting peoples lifestyles. The Machine age was not suited to the affluent and creative people of this age and because of this postmodernism was created
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Definitions 1.2.1 Organizational structure 1.2.2 Multinational corporation 1.2.3 Global communication networks 1.3 Related literature 1.4 Methodology and outline 2 Postmodernism 2.1 An overview 2.1.1 Contrasting modernism and postmodernism 2.1.2 Positive and negative evaluations of postmodernism 2.1.3 Foundations of postmodernism 2.2 Postmodernism as an era 2.2.1 Postmodern society 2.2.1.1 Baudrillard ’s concept of simulacra 2.2.1.2 Videotexts‚ cyberspace‚ etc. 2.2.2 Postmodern corporations 2.2.2.1 Generalization
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LVIV – 2009 CONTENTS Introduction ………………………………………………………………………3 Chapter 1. THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF THE POSTMODERNIST DISCOURSE ………………………...……………………………………………9 1. The linguistic interpretation of the term of postmodernism ……………..9 2. The Postmodernist World View …………………………………….......10 3. The Philosophy of Post structuralism …………………………………..13 1.3.1. Text as the unit of intercultural communication………………………19 1.3 2. Textuality ........
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of living‚ and people would forget about “what is really important.” 1. What is postmodernism? Postmodernism began as something to question the ideas of modernism. Post modernists distrust science since they believe scientific facts are products of social processes and bias just like everything else. They view culture as a series of ideas‚ images‚ symbols‚ and media. Postmodernism basically says that there is no set definition of reality and that the world is indefinable‚ always
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Modernism and Post Modernism Have you ever wondered what the differences are between the modernism and post modernism? It seems like it would be easy to describe what they are by the words and what they are usually associated with. Yet‚ it’s actually a lot different then your thinking. Modernism is the movement in visual arts‚ music‚ literature‚ and drama‚ which rejected the old Victorian standards of how art should be made‚ consumed‚ and what it should mean. Modernists want the absolute truth
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Notes on Lyotard ’Jean-François Lyotard‚ Ph.D.‚ (b. 1924 in Versailles) became one of the world’s foremost philosophers‚ noted for his analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition. A key figure in contemporary French philosophy‚ his interdisciplinary discourse covers a wide variety of topics including knowledge and communication; the human body; modernist and postmodern art‚ literature‚ and music; film; time and memory; space‚ the city‚ and landscape; the sublime; and the relation
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