Modernity and postmodernity

• What is modernity?

  Period of history characterized by industrialization, urbanization, and social change
• What is the aim of modernists views?

  To investigate the world scientifically and develop a monopoly of truth
• What are the two main modernists views?

  Functionalism and Marxism
• What does the post-modernists view argue?

  That contemporary society is changing due to factors such as globalisation so metanarratives can't be used to answer all of society's questions
• What does postmodernists Baudrillard argue?

  That postmodernity has lead to hyper-reality via factors such as the media
• What is hyper-reality?


  The inability to distinguish between what is and isn't real
• What is late-modernism?

  Continued view of modernism that has accelerated over time
• What does Giddens argue about post-modernity?

  We haven't entered postmodernity yet but are living in an extension of modernity