SOC110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Postmodern Culture
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Parallel to the changes associated with postindustrial societies run a range of profound cultural innovations influencing new modes of interpretation and understanding of the social environment societies do so in different ways. Both of these movements "distort" industrial societies" cultural features but they. Some developments greatly exaggerate trends that have started in industrial. Two of the most important examples are hyperrationality (discussed next) and. At the other hand, social changes tend to reverse trends that were once typical of. Hyperrationality: max weber, among the most influential thinkers in economics, hyper-consumption, leading to growing demands for more products industrial societies political science and sociology, found that a key trend characterizing western societies was the "demystification" of the world. Writing early in the twentieth century, weber argued that spiritual beliefs, superstitions, and rituals played an ever-declining role in most people"s everyday lives. Their status had an increasing rationality, epitomized by the new science and.
