In deze verwarrende tijd. Cultuursociologie van het postmodernisme

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In These Confusing Times: A Cultural Sociology of Postmodernism. Explores postmodernism as a multifaceted cultural movement in which the label "postmodern" has acquired various overlapping meanings. Postmodernism is interpreted as the work of intellectuals (in the broad sense) in different relatively autonomous cultural fields. Its emergence and spread is explained as resulting from four interrelated but distinctive processes: (1) changes in the arts, literature, and architecture; (2) political and ideological changes (in particular, Marxism's loss of intellectual appeal since the 1970s); (3) the emergence of new identity movements; and (4) changing competitive relations within and between scholarly and scientific fields. These processes are related to broader social transformations -- eg, processes of individualization, the commercialization of leisure, and the growing impact of the mass media -- that might be regarded as indicative of the transition to a postmodern society. 81 References. Adapted from the source document.