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Some of the Key Features of Modernity and Post-Late Modernity and Modern, Post-Modern and Late Modern Thought.
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Historical Period |
Time Period |
Key Features of Society |
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Modernity |
1650 to 1950 (ish) |
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Post and Late Modernity (the Same) |
1980 (ish) to the present day |
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Theory |
Society |
The Individual |
Knowledge |
Examples |
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Modernism |
Structured, institutions important stable, ordered, |
Individual shaped by society |
Objective knowledge is possible, it can lead to progress |
Marxism |
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Post-Modernism |
Institutions less powerful, media and consmer culture all important |
Individual free to construct their own identity |
Objective knowledge is not possible, it just leads to oppression |
Lyotard |
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Late Modernism |
Global institutions and abstract systems both constrain and empower individuals |
The Individual has no choice but to construct their identity |
Knowledge is still useful to help steer late-modernity, but it is fraught with uncertainties |
Giddens |
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