The Condition of Postmodernity, David Harvey: Chapter 3: Postmodernism, A Summary
A summary of David Harvey’s (1989) The Condition of Postmodernity’: An Inquiry Into the Origins of Cultural Change. This is […]
modernity
Book summaries, Postmodernism and Late Modernsim
The Condition of Postmodernity: Chapter 2
A summary of David Harvey’s (1989) The Condition of Postmodernity’: An Inquiry Into the Origins of Cultural Change, chapter 2.
Book summaries, Culture and Identity
From Pilgrim to Tourist – Or A Short History of Identity, Zygmunt Bauman
If the modern problem of identity was how to construct an identity, the postmodern problem of identity is how to
Book summaries
What is Sociology? (According to Giddens in Modernity and Self-Identity)
This is a rough outline of some of the purposes Sociology might be put to according to Giddens, gleaned from
Social Theories
From Modernity to Postmodernity
Modernity (1650 to 1950) involved industrialisation, capitalism, urbanisation, nation state building, and a belief in progress through science. Postmodernity (1950 to today) is global, media saturated and hyperreal, consumerist, culturally diverse, sceptical and uncertain about politics, science and the truth.
Culture and Identity, Families and Households, Social Theories
Giddens – Modernity and Self-Identity
A brief summary of Anthony Giddens’ work on the relationship between the self and society in late-modern age. Self-identity, history,
Postmodernism and Late Modernsim
Modernity, Postmodernity and The Family
Modernity, Postmodernity and The Family is one of the most difficult topics for students to get their heads around –