A-Level Sociology (AQA)

Topic Summaries

Sociological perspectives

Postmodernism

  • Postmodernism: rejects fixed structures, believing society to be fragmented and shaped by global media.
    • 👤 Lyotard (1979): rejects metanarratives such as Marxism or functionalism as oversimplifications.
    • 👤 Baudrillard (1981): hyperreality means media images can become more real than reality itself.
      • Risks relativism
      • Ignores persistent inequalities (class, gender, race)

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