A-Level Sociology (AQA)

Topic Summaries

Sociological perspectives and debates in sociology

Modernity and postmodernity

  • Debates over how social change influences theory and method.
    • Modernism: linked to industrialisation, belief in progress, and scientific rationality.
      • Assumes objective truth can be found.
    • Postmodernism (👤 Lyotard, 1979) rejects metanarratives and focuses on individual identity and consumption.
      • Risks relativism, undermining the possibility of shared truths.

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