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    Modernism sociologically‚ is a discipline that arose in direct response to the social problems of "modernity" (Harriss 2000‚ 325); the term most generally refers to the social conditions‚ processes‚ and discourses of 1438-1789 and extending to the 1970s or later (Toulmin 1992‚ 3–5). Modernity may also refer to tendencies in intellectual culture‚ particularly the movements intertwined with secularization and post-industrial life‚ such as Marxism‚ existentialism‚ and the formal establishment of social

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    Michael Garuba Differentiate Modernism from Post Modernism Modernism‚ in literature‚ is the basic concept of new methods through new reasoning. During the renaissance period of English history‚ the traditional values of Western civilization‚ which the Victorians had only begun to question‚ came to be questioned seriously by a number of new writers who saw society breaking down around them. The world was being looked at from a new perspective‚ mostly scientifically. Traditional literary forms

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    The Post Modernism period just came after the Modern period but it is not clear or impossible to be said when it came. In other words the modern Period was the time when the world was recovered from World War 2‚ which started globalization. The Post Modernism is a concept that arrived an era of academic study about in the mid-1980s. There is a variety of concepts‚ architecture‚ music‚ literature‚ fashion‚ art‚ film etc. In the 1980’s the political climate changed. During that time Post Modernism involves

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    Post Modernism What Is Post Modernism? Post modernism is a complicated term or set of ideas‚ one that has only emerged as an area of academic study since the mid 1980s. Post modernism is hard to define. This is due to the fact that it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of disciplines and areas of study‚ including art‚ architecture‚ music‚ film‚ literature‚ sociology‚ communications‚ fashion‚ and technology. Historically‚ it is hard to locate as it’s not clear exactly when postmodernism

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    modernist and postmodern art‚ literature‚ and music; film; time and memory; space‚ the city‚ and landscape; the sublime; and the relation between aesthetics and politics. -Jean-Francois Lyotard is a French philosopher best known for his ideas about post-modernism. In this essay‚ lyotard strongly doubts the idea of Habermas about the incomplete project of modernity. He disagrees with habermas in his attempt to bridge the gap between cognitive‚ ethical‚ and political discourse and opening a way to a unity

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    Implications for Researching the Organisation [a] Post Fordism? i) The 1980s: Flexible Specialisation and ’Disorganised Capitalism’: Piore and Sabel (1984) argue in The Second Industrial Divide[i] that new production systems must orientate towards multi-skilling and rapid re-skilling in order to accommodate the search for shifting and newly forming niche markets in a post mass production/mass consumer world. This implies economies of scope rather than economies of scale and a more creative

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    Modernism and Post Modernism in Literature Modernism in Literature Literary Modernism has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries‚ mainly in Europe and North America. Modernism is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse. Modernists experimented with literary form and expression‚ adhering to the modernist maxim to "Make it new." The modernist literary movement was driven by a desire to overturn traditional modes of representation and express

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    This term’s use can be traced back to the 1870’s‚ and was commonly used to describe a change in art‚ music and architecture. It describes a movement from modern thinking and attitudes to a new set of beliefs. Although the actual beginning of the post modern era is unknown‚ it is best believed to have started in the mid – 1900’s. There have been many influences driving the postmodern way of thinking‚ some of the more influential of these potentially being Jean-François Lyotard‚ Jean Baudrillard

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    Robbie Twitchell Brad Clemons English 10 4-18-12 Moral Relativity and Post Modernism in To Kill a Mockingbird Since the 1960s‚ society has been shifting from the traditional culture based around the organized. It was a society that had a moral base. Since the 1960s‚ the western world‚ and more specifically the United States‚ have shifted away from this moral base and into a post-modernist moral relativity. Rules are suggestions instead of law‚ the standpoint that all opinions are valid but

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    MOVIE POSTERS AND POST MODERNISM The post modern movement took place between 1978 and the current day Movie posters of the 1970’s mostly continued in the style of the 1960s. Posters were simple with illustrated images‚ full length shots of the main actors (in an action film it would be images of the main actors escaping a dangerous situation)‚ a title and a short tag line. The major change in movies between the 1970’s and the 1960’s was the introduction of black films into traditionally white

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