SOC 104 Final: Examine the strengths and weaknesses of any one social scientific approach studied on the module.doc

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Margaret Buckby

Document Summary

Examine the strengths and weaknesses of any one social scientific approach studied on the module. There are various approaches emerged in social scientific analysis like structuralism, functionalism, rational choice theory, interpretive theory, critical theory, feminism and postmodernism etc. In this paper i want to examine the strengths and weaknesses of postmodernism. In discussing the postmodernism approach it is necessary to discuss the historical background and the major aspects of postmodernism. Post modernism is hard to define, because it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of discipline or areas of study, including art, architecture, music, film, literature, sociology, communication, fashion and technology. However, these remain largely superficial connections outside the boundaries of socio-economic changes since 1945. It is only against the background of economic expansion, particularly in the 1960s, that postmodern disposition as an aspect of post modernisation becomes intelligible.