Postmodernism

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Introduction

Emerged in the 1970s and has been influential in many areas, including sociology.

Pm argue we are now living in a new era of post-modernity.

Post-modernity is an unstable, fragmented, media-saturated global village, where it image and reality is indistinguishable.

In a postmodern society we define ourselves by what we consume.

Not a continuation of modernity, but a fundamental break with it.

For this new type of society- we need new theories. Modernists theories no longer apply.