Revija za sociologiju, Vol. 19 No. 3, 1988.
Ostalo
Is There a Sociology of Postmodernism?
Zygmunt Bauman
; University of Leeds, Leeds
Sažetak
The author tries to establish the concept of postmodernism and thinks that it makes sense only if it represents a new self-assertion of an individual. In addition, he says that the name itself cannot be determined from the concept of modernism, because postmodernism as such, generates the concept of modernism.
The concept of postmodernism stems from the »status crisis« of a modern intellectual. Such crisis can be explained by destruction of ethnocentric glorification of the western way of life, also, by the crisis of legitimacy of a modem state in which the processes of seduction and repression make the legitimization superfluous as well as by the domination of the market in all spheres of living. If we liberate the political forces from their dependence on legitimacy, it is also possible to stay free from political interference though it will not result in free intellectual creativity, because with the withdrawal of the state, there comes a new protector and censor: the market. The market achieves the aims that intellectuals have looked forward in vain: it can transform the exchange of information into nice and pleasant leisure through which education reaches its top popularity and the lowest level of its value as it is being judged by newly-formed standards of intellectuals.
Postmodernism, therefore, proclaims the end of sociology and social psychology »such as they have been known to us« and denotes new situations and approaches of reconsideration and renomination of aims and strategies of sociology and social psychology.
In conclusion the author maintains that we should differentiate the sociology of postmodernism from the traditional sociology not only in the procedures and intentions of sociological endeavors but also in the new object of investigation.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
155637
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Datum izdavanja:
30.9.1988.
Posjeta: 2.186 *