In Which Way Postmodernism Influenced Contemporary Social Theory?

How postmodernism has influenced social theory
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In this essay, a detailed discussion of the way in which postmodernism influenced contemporary social theory is provided. Social theory is considered as a research program and a generalized discourse, and ideology is a vital part of it. During the crisis of modernism, there were wars and revolutions in third world nations, and dictatorship rather than democracy was spreading globally. The theory of modernity was a deflationary set of beliefs after an earlier heroic age of drastic quest. Additionally, modernity theory gave emphasis the local, the personal, as well as the private. The theory of modernization ended in the sixties. Postmodern theorists for instance Lyotard bring together postmodern and modern discourses and understand the postmodern mainly as a modality of the modern instead of construing it as its radical other. According to Lyotard, postmodernism is essentially a social theory – an explanatory one – which has created other models of epistemology, science, family relation, social action, class, gender, and culture. The phrase postmodern serves in a number of contemporary discourses as a marker for the new and that which does not fit into the earlier paradigms. Post-modernism has created an extensive theory of society through interlinking the levels of process and structure, macro and micro, with strong claims as regards the past, the current, as well as future of contemporary life. Lyotard and Baudrillard both want to be avatars of the postmodern whenever it goes well with them or their audiences, and to distance themselves from this concept whenever they wanted to.
Keywords: modernism, postmodernism, social theory
How postmodernism has influenced social theory
The expression modernity was initially utilized during the late 5th century so as to differentiate the present, which is Christianity, from the Roman and the pagan past. Modernism correspond to a significant seductive force, supporting the domination and ascendancy of the principle of unreserved self-realization, the subjectivism of an over-stimulated sensibility, and the demand for real self-experience (Habermas, 2006). For post-modern discourse to possess substantive cognitive content particular distinctions have to be made and the various terms of the postmodern should be differentiated from the discourses of the modern. This paper provides an in-depth discussion of how postmodernism influenced contemporary social theory.
Postmodern and modern theories are distinguished as 2 opposing theoretical discourses; postmodernity and modernity are differentiated as 2 dissimilar historical periods; and postmodernism and modernism as 2 conflicting cultural and aesthetic styles (Best & Keller, 1994). The post-modern is in fact a characteristic of the universe in which more definitions are not possible, as the extreme limit of these possibilities has already been reached. It has actually destroyed itself and deconstructed its whole universe and all that remains are pieces. What can now be done is to play with the pieces; that is the postmodernism. This statement is true. Actually, there are a lot of dissimilar versions of the postmod...