Change and progressing A distinct break

Started with The away from tradition with modernity

Enlightenment

Scientific rationality Scepticism about the

Secularisation benefits of science

1650 - 1950 ish 1970 ish onwards

Capitalism and Post
Fordism Industrialisation industrialisation Consumer
and the service societies
Modernity and sector
Modernity Postmodernity
Postmodernity
Abroad -
Colonialism
Globalisation
The nation state
and the decline
and
of the nation
bureaucratisation There is no such thing
We can find the state
At home - the as 'truth' - truth and Consumption
welfare state truth, and the knowledge are a more important
truth can set us function of power. We
free need to be free from
Class and Politics less
Metanarratives the idea of truth People have an
gender important as a incredulity to
politics source of identity metanarratives

Modern theories Postmodern theorists

Positivist sociology Hybrid identities

Judith Butler -
Destabilising theory
Functionalism
The death of the
social
Marxism 'Knowledge' not
separate from Lyotard Baudrillard
power Foucault Hyperreality
and the
Early simulacrum
Feminism Incredulity to Language
metanarratives games
Focussed on transgression
and deviance Sign objects
'Knowledge' not seperate and the
Focussed on from money/ profit consumer
'how to live' society