Sociology of Postmodernism by Scott Lash

By Scott Lash

This authoritative and revealing e-book offers the 1st sociological exam of postmodernism. Lash examines the variations betweeen modernism and postmodernism, offering a transparent clarification of why postmodernism is critical. This publication will be of curiosity to scholars of sociology, communications, philosophy, visible arts, and glossy languages.

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Adolescence, its rock culture, and its new subcultures created a period in life, a temporal span, in which this rigid normativity was challenged and de-centred. 38 This process was complex and only a few general points can be made here. What was going on was two processes of de-centring of identity - that is, of both (1) individual and (2) collective identity. This is made even more complex by the 'external' forces which were coming into being at about the same point in time, in particular the fragmentation of working-class communities and attendant 'embourgeoisement', and the numerical 'shrinkage' of the working class itself as a proportion of the population.

As foreshadowed above, both PMI and PM2 are opposite sides of a 'regime of signification' which articulate with a regime of capital accumulation. The new restructured regime of capital accumulation has been known variously as 'post-Fordism' or as 'disorganized capitalism'. Let me, in what is a culture studies book after all, use these terms interchangeably. The shift to postFordism (or the end of 'organized capitalism') entails a departure from mass production and mass consumption, the shift towards a service and information economy, working-class shrinkage and fragmentation; the fragmentation of opposition into decen- 37 TOWARDS A SOCIOLOGICAL ACCOUNT tralized social movements; the resurgence of individualism, albeit in Thatcherite/Reaganite form, and so on.

Beer made the link between popular culture and radical democratic values within the working class in Britain. He argued that the anti-authoritarian ethos of pop culture moved workers not only to dispute the authority of employers and the bureaucratic state, but to oppose hierarchy within trade unions, the Labour Party, and the working-class community themselves. Such grassroots opposition, claimed Beer, upset the 'corporatist bias', in which union and Labour Party leadership exercised social control over their constituent members.

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