Metanarratives - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

PostmodernismWhat do postmodernists say? - correct answer They say that in the past 20 years or so, some sociologists have identified trends & developments which they claim show that industrial modernity is fragmenting or dissolving. They argue that industrial modernity is being replaced by a postmodern world in which many sociological ideas & concepts are becoming irrelevant. What does Taylor say are the characteristics of postmodern society? - correct answer The key social relationships ...

Postmodernism Postmodernism - correct answer aesthetic, cultural *metafiction* (narrative within narrative) *self-reflexivity* *blurring of boundaries* (no high & low culture) *sheer play and existential commitment* *pastiche* (Comic Mona Lisa) (pieces of art alluding to what came before, revisit old style vs. Modernism, reinvent everything) *linguistic scepticism/deconstruction* (poststructuralism: meaning collapsed, my pen is not your pen) Meaning = unstable Not just literature, als...

UTT Postmodernism Questions with complete solution 2023/2024Postmodernism - correct answer a skeptical worldview, founded as a reaction to modernism, which is suspicious of metanarratives and teaches that ultimate reality is inaccessible, knowledge is a social construct, and truth claims are political power players Correspondence Theory of Truth - correct answer the truth of a proposition is determined by how accurately it describes the facts of reality. Modernism - correct answer a belie...

Postmodernism1. According to Postmodernism, the following affect how we see the world? - correct answer a. Culture b. Language c. Gender According to Postmodernism, truth is what? - correct answer Socially constructed 1. Which Postmodernist philosopher famously pronounced, "God is dead"? - correct answer . Friedrich Nietzsche 1. According to Postmodernism, language functions as what? - correct answer A tool of power and manipulation Postmodernists doubt the objectivity of which o...

Postmodernism Questions with complete solution 2023/2024 Postmodernism - correct answer -is pessimistic regarding human progress since organizing principles (metanarratives) that bind a society together are not trustworthy -all claims to truth, no matter who makes them, must be questioned. This is required because cultural traditions and the way language is used means that what passes for truth is socially constructed Jacques Derrida - correct answer -his mission was to present a method for...

Postmodernism Sociology Question and answers 2023/2024 verified to pass What was the problem for the West as it sought to escape Nihilism? - correct answer its nothingness What is Postmodernism an extension of? - correct answer modern thinking What happened to humanity's frame of reference when God died? - correct answer It became meaningless What does it mean that Postmodernism is an "incredulity towards metanarratives"? - correct answer no one has the authority to tell someone els...

Postmodernism Test Premodern- - correct answer > to 1600 AD Revelation is the foundation Modern- - correct answer 1600 to 1960 AD Science comes to forefront Postmodern- - correct answer 1960 to ? Experience is most important John Stonestreet speaks of the Wexner Center of Performing Arts, the first postmodern building. On which University campus is this building located? - correct answer The Ohio State The "Godfather" of the postmodernists, who proclaimed in the Parable of the ...

PostmodernismPremodernism - correct answer Dualistic approach, there is a natural and supernatural or extra-natural. All conclusions were theological. Creation was a result of God, because God created mankind, mankind must have a purpose. History followed an orderly pattern according to God's plan. Three transitions of thinking - correct answer Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern. Modernism - correct answer A revolt against a premodern type of thinking, although aspects of premodern thought...

Bible - PostmodernismCan you summarize the postmodern worldview in a few words (5) - correct answer -a reaction to the evils of modernism -views truth claims as political power plays -views truth is a social construct -ultimate knowledge is inaccessible -suspicious of metanarratives If "Postmodernism" means "after modernism" what is modernism - correct answer modernism is characterized by a strong belief in human reason, empiricism, science, and technological progress, as well as ske...

PostmodernPostmodernism - correct answer The state, condition, or period subsequent to that which is modern; spec. in architecture, the arts, literature, politics, etc., any of various styles, concepts, or points of view involving a conscious departure from modernism, esp. when characterized by a rejection of ideology and theory in favour of a plurality of values and techniques. Peter Barry - correct answer Modernism was concerned with challenging and disregarding the 'fundamental elements'...