High or Late Modernity

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High or Late Modernity

• The current phase of development of modern
  institutions, marked by the radicalising and
  globalising traits of modernity (Giddens).

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Post-Modernism

• A way of looking at the world which rejects
  attempts to build systematic explanations of
  history and human activity and which, instead,
  concentrates on the ways in which human beings
  invent their worlds, especially through
  language and cultural innovation

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Post-modernity

• A state into which the world is moving which
  departs from the key organising principles of
  modernity.

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Application The Post-modern family (Stacey)

• I use the term post-modern familyto signal the
  contested, ambivalent, and undecided character of
  our family cultures.
• Like post-modern culture, contemporary Western
  family arrangements are, diverse, fluid and
  unresolved. Like post-modern cultural forms, our
  families mix unlikely elements in an
  improvisational pastiche of old and new

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Application Beck and Beck-Gernsheim

• It is no longer possible to pronounce what
  family, marriage, parenthood, sexuality or love
  mean, what they should or could be rather these
  vary in substance, norms and morality from
  individual to individual and from relationship to
  relationship. The answers to these questions must
  be worked out, negotiated, arranged and justified
  in all the details of how, what, why or why not,
  even if this might unleash the conflicts and
  devils that lie slumbering among the
  details.love is becoming a blank that lovers
  must fill themselves.