Title: Postmodernism – An Introduction for A-level Sociology Students – ReviseSociology
Headings: Postmodernism – An Introduction for A-level Sociology Students
Postmodernism – An Introduction for A-level Sociology Students
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Content: This could explain why we have nuclear weapons but no cure for cancer. Jean-Francois Lyotard: A Postmodern Frenchman, or a French Postmodernist? Moreover, it seems that the pursuit of scientific knowledge (and especially its application) has in some ways made the world a riskier, more dangerous place – nuclear weapons and global warming are both the products of science, for example. Democracy has spread around the world, but in many developed political systems voters are apathetic and politicians reviled. In short, for many postmodern theorists, the grand project of modernity has run into the sand. For Jean Baudrillard (1929 – 2007), the post-modern age is a world where people respond to media images rather than to real persons or places. Thus when Diana, princes of Wales, died in 1997, there was an enormous outpouring of grief all over the world. But were people mourning a real person? Princes Diana existed for most people only through the mass media, and her death was presented like an event in a soap opera rather than an event in real life.