Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
1. Work
2. Fashion and Music
3. The breakdown of local communities
Post modernists argue that we live in a ’Pick
and mix’ society. Individuals today are free to
pick their lifestyle and life course from a wider
range of options than ever before, just as if they
were picking and choosing products in a super
market! Importantly, post modernists argue
that individuals are much less shaped by their
class, gender and ethnic backgrounds today.
The ever increasing pace of globalization has
lead to an increase in cultural diversity and
‘hybridity’, which refers to the mixing of different
cultural traditions. If we compare society today
to that of 100 or even 50 years ago we see a
bewildering increase in the diversity of social
and cultural forms. Some include;