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This 8 page paper critically evaluates the inadequacies of post modern social theory, drawing from a number of key theorists such as Jean Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard and David Harvey. The bibliography looks at the theories and then considers the weaknesses. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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goes through many stages, different trends and ideas evolve and become popular, before being replaced with newer ideas or developments. This can be seen reflected on many of the outward
manifestations of society. From the art forms to the social constructs, each changes in repose to the society in which it is perceived. The basis of post modernity is that
society has entered a new phase, where there is an increasing lack of faith in modern ideas and the belief in science and reason as well as the development of
modern capitalism undermining many established social norms such as the power of government. This is the next stage from modernity as typified with the ideas of Weber and Marx which
had their origins in the enlightenment and are based on logic and science. Post modernism is seen in many areas of life, from art and architecture to the way in
which sociological subjects are studied with divergent methodologies. One example of post modernism may be the way in which a modern society made use of technology to build tower
blocks out of cheap material and to house people efficiently, as Le Corbusier described, producing machines for modern living. However these modernitys started to fall out of favour, and the
fall of this from popualrity is claimed by Charles Jenks to have marked the end of the modern period (Harvey, 1990). This has given way to fears and trust in
these ideas and our faith of plans for the future is eroded in all areas of life, not only architecture. Jean Francois Lyotard argues that this movement actual began
in the 1950s with the emergence varying in different countries dependant on the stage of development of science and technology (1984). The main area that Lyotard argues is that
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