The concept of Modernity and postmodernity in relation to sociological theory.

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Exploring Modernity and Postmodernity

Test your knowledge on the concepts of modernity and postmodernity as they relate to sociological theory. This quiz will challenge your understanding of key ideas, social changes, and the impact of media in contemporary society.

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Assess your grasp of important sociological concepts

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What are the main features of modernity?

Industrialization and the manufacturing of standardized goods for a msss market

Work and social class are the main forms of social division and social identity, and both culture and politics are social class-related.

One way mass media are produced by consumers and reflect many realities.

An optimistic view that the applioication of rational thought, science and technology could provide a means of contriolling and improving the natural world.

What is postmodernism and postmodernity?

Society is in a state of constant change and is marked by chaos and uncertainty

Social stucture like the family, class are breaking down and cannot be generalised.

Truth no longer exists and rational thought and science have caused more problems than they have solved.

Society is dominated by media saturated consumer culture where individuals are free to pick and mix any identity they want

Marxists and functionalist are meta narratives that can explain the nature of social reality

What is a media saturated society?

Images, which dominate society, appear to reflect events in the real world but have no basis in reality, which Baudrillard calls Simulacra

Media created images replace 'reality' and the media define a 'hyperreality' where media images become 'more real' than the actual reality they are trying to represent.

We respond to a 'make believe, media derived worlds' rather than reality itself.

What is globalization?

The nation state is becoming less significant.

People's lives are no longer rooted in the 'folk culture' of the local, but have become disembedded, unlimited by time and place.

Being able to eat Mcdonalds in Lowestoft.

Globalisation means that social class, gender and ethnicity are more relevant.

The concept of Modernity and postmodernity in relation to sociological theory.

Exploring Modernity and Postmodernity

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