COMS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Intersectionality, Relativism, Commodification

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Period that came at late 19th or starting of. To remove the uncertainty and disorder that was present in past. Trying to create reason and order in everything that happens in the world. Three key characteristics of the modernist period: rise of science and reason: modernism celebrated the idea with neutrality and objectivity that we link with science. Vast things around us could be connected with science: the coherent, autonomous self: emphasizing the mind above the soul. Respond to the faith and religion ruled society. Explained each of us as coherent, logical and easy to explain. Becoming clear as who we are and what our role is in the society. Labeling all the ideas of the society: stable coherent society (grand narratives or metanarratives): everything was built to identify the things in the society. Grand narratives are institutions to explain our culture. It focused on the cultural practices and the values and the identifying characteristics of the society.

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