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Postmodernism TestPostmodernism is a skeptical worldview founded as a reaction to - correct answer Modernism What Postmodernism is suspicious of - correct answer Metanarratives Postmodernism teaches that ultimate reality is - correct answer Inaccessible According to Postmodernism, what is a social construct - correct answer Knowledge Postmodernism believes truth-claims are what - correct answer Political power plays Modernism followed what time period - correct answer The Enlighte...

Postmodernism Features of modern society? - correct answer 1) The Nation State 2) Capitalism 3) Rationality, science and technology 4) Tradition, custom and ascribed status become less important as the basis for our actions. What are modernist theories a part of? - correct answer Modernist theories are part of the enlightenment project - the idea that society can progress through the use of human reason. When did modern society first emerge? - correct answer Late 18th century. Capit...

Postmodernism Test UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers 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

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...

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...

Quiz: Postmodernism, Social Constructivism, Psychoeducational Family Therapy Question 1 2 pts Postmodernists agree that what we call reality: can be measured can be objectified reflects what is out there are social inventions and evolve from conversations with others Question 2 2 pts According to postmodern thinking, "romantic love" is a: social invention necessity for couple contentment part of all relationships all of the above Question 3 2 pts Scaling questions” are effort...

World Lit II: Modernism & Postmodernism UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Munroe - CORRECT ANSWER- A reporter who dies in "The Lurking Fear" Institutions - CORRECT ANSWER- Modernists seek to make their readers aware of the incoherence of modern life and the alienating influence of modern _

Postmodernism Question and answers already passed 2023/2024true - correct answer t/f: a reaction to the evils of modernism true - correct answer t/f: views truth claims as political power plays social construct - correct answer what does postmodernism view truth as? false - correct answer t/f: ultimate knowledge is accessible. false (metanarratives are sus) - correct answer t/f: postmodernism accepts metanarratives as truth after modernism - correct answer what does postmodernism ...

ESC3701 Assignment 1 2023 100% TRUSTED workings, explanations and solutions. QUESTION 1 Discuss the central ethical idea in African philosophy and its contribution to formal schooling or education. (10) 22 Empiricism and an Empirical philosophy of Education QUESTION 2 According to Higgs and Letseka (2022), “In education, Empiricism insists that teaching and learning can only occur in those subjects that provide humankind with ‘real knowledge’. What is your opinion on this statement? (10) ...

Postmodernism Question and answers already passed 2023/20241. 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