SOC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Identity Politics, Neoliberalism, Industrial Society
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To understand post-modernism or what a post-modern society is, we need to know the defining characteristics of a modern society. To maintain law and order, to protect national interests, maintain political and military alliances, fight the war on terror and drugs. Corporations, the military, public services and public institutions. Capitalist economy, representative democracy, mass media, urbanization, nuclear family, middle class. Mass production, mass consumption, balance between wages and inflation, economic growth. Mass media and advertising as sources of information. Different social classes, life worlds, forms of economic activity. Lack of labels, or increase in labels, or change in meaning. Diverse races and ethnic groups, culture, interests, styles and fashions, knowledge and information. Presence of different ethnic groups, multicultural society, assimilation and conformity are less important. No one religion dominates or is right. " experts don"t know everything they can be wrong (fact vs. opinion). People prefer to live for the moment rather than plan for the future.
