SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Metanarrative, Post-Structuralism, Social Class

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100
• Professor: Stephen Speake

Document Summary

Postmodern perspective post-wwii era. : transition from manufacturing products to producing ideas and images (p. 16, so-called the knowledge society". Modern is what were are doing at this present moment. Postmodernism is after modern so postmodern thinking relative to wwii era is right now. He says right now we can say that the western society has postmodern thinking. Modern = manufacturing: transition has led to two forms of thinking. Skeptical social change created conditions of chaos and meaninglessness the change of thinking of current students towards pessimistic outlook because of accumulating debt and too much stress and pressure. Postmodernism describes an historical period (skeptical) Poststructuralism suggests knowing" is discursive and in crisis (affirmative) study discourses (its being contested) and elite discourses. Discourses are sets of ideas, beliefs, attitudes that circulate in society and become part of the natural order of the way things are done.