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    Theism in a Postmodern World

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    World Christian theism‚ at best‚ can very loosely be compared to postmodernism in that both have established a worldview. Each also has a set of ideas to which the follower adheres to‚ in order to live a fulfilled life. However‚ these set of guidelines‚ if you will‚ are vastly different and lead to different ends. Christian theism principles are based upon the existence of God while postmodernism principles are based upon individual and/or personal reasoning. Sire goes as far to

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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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    as it embraces elements of philosophy‚ art and cultural mood. It is a reaction against modernism. “Modernism is an approach to life that humans can progress through the use of science‚ technology and rationality” (Coakley‚ 1998:30) Therefore‚ postmodernism can be described as a late 20th century style in the arts and criticism that represents a departure from

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    The Information Age

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    it is the era that follows Modernism‚ and designates the cultural condition of the late twentieth century. Postmodern primarily occurred in the West‚ artist offered alternatives to the high seriousness and introversion of Modernist expression. Postmodernism is also self consciously populist even to the point of inviting the active participation of the beholder. Postmodern artist bring wry skepticism to the creative act‚ less preoccupied than Modernist. Postmodernist also acknowledged art as an information

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    Modernism and Post Modernism Have you ever wondered what the differences are between the modernism and post modernism? It seems like it would be easy to describe what they are by the words and what they are usually associated with. Yet‚ it’s actually a lot different then your thinking. Modernism is the movement in visual arts‚ music‚ literature‚ and drama‚ which rejected the old Victorian standards of how art should be made‚ consumed‚ and what it should mean. Modernists want the absolute truth

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    identity within postmodernism using recommended texts. During the postmodernist era there was great emphasis on the movement of philosophy and social science as well as new influential styles of architecture‚ design and fashion. It was the development of the modernist era‚ which in the late 1950’s received criticism for being standardized and no longer suiting peoples lifestyles. The Machine age was not suited to the affluent and creative people of this age and because of this postmodernism was created

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    Definitions 1.2.1 Organizational structure 1.2.2 Multinational corporation 1.2.3 Global communication networks 1.3 Related literature 1.4 Methodology and outline 2 Postmodernism 2.1 An overview 2.1.1 Contrasting modernism and postmodernism 2.1.2 Positive and negative evaluations of postmodernism 2.1.3 Foundations of postmodernism 2.2 Postmodernism as an era 2.2.1 Postmodern society 2.2.1.1 Baudrillard ’s concept of simulacra 2.2.1.2 Videotexts‚ cyberspace‚ etc. 2.2.2 Postmodern corporations 2.2.2.1 Generalization

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    LVIV – 2009 CONTENTS Introduction ………………………………………………………………………3 Chapter 1. THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF THE POSTMODERNIST DISCOURSE ………………………...……………………………………………9 1. The linguistic interpretation of the term of postmodernism ……………..9 2. The Postmodernist World View …………………………………….......10 3. The Philosophy of Post structuralism …………………………………..13 1.3.1. Text as the unit of intercultural communication………………………19 1.3 2. Textuality ........

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    Sociology Amish society

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    of living‚ and people would forget about “what is really important.” 1. What is postmodernism? Postmodernism began as something to question the ideas of modernism. Post modernists distrust science since they believe scientific facts are products of social processes and bias just like everything else. They view culture as a series of ideas‚ images‚ symbols‚ and media. Postmodernism basically says that there is no set definition of reality and that the world is indefinable‚ always

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    and the postmodern perspective while discussing various aspects of these 2 perspectives relative to each other. In addition‚ this essay will be using these 2 perspectives to show that Apple as an organisation uses a hybrid of both modernism and postmodernism approaches towards its organisational network and influences while suggesting some limitations on some of these theories. Theoretical framework In order to have a clearer understanding on the two chosen schools of thought‚ each of it must first

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