Define and provide a contemporary example of a Lyotard metanarrative.
What will be an ideal response?
Metanarratives, or grand narratives, are paradigmatic systems of knowledge that contain established and credible worldviews and describe a total picture of society; they provide the basis on which truth claims are made and through which the validity of knowledge is judged. Examples of modern metanarratives are Marxism and its socialist variants, the democratic and progressive ideologies of the European Enlightenment, science and the quest for empirical truth, and systems of religious thought like Christianity.
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a. paying workers less than their value b. basing an item's value on the work that goes into it c. not paying attention to market forces d. returning people to an agrarian economic system
What is the similarity between the lack of good jobs for recent college graduates and the loss of retirement nest eggs for the elderly?
a. They both have led to new family structures. b. They both have become burdens on society. c. They both rely primarily on Social Security benefits. d. They both have led to a migration to the sunbelt states.
In general, ethnic minority youth who are LGBT have relatively little difficulty establishing a secure sexual identity because ______.
a. their ethnic communities are accepting of sexual minorities b. their ethnic communities include strong social support networks c. ethnic minority youth tend to come out at a later stage, when they have already left home d. ethnic minority youth have developed skills to help them cope with marginalization
As discussed in lecture, why is it powerful when otherwise powerless people collectively withhold their compliance and refuse to participate in everyday life?
A. Because it changes socially constructed reality on which the power of elites rests B. Because religious elites are unable to control their followers when they begin to work outside the existing political channels C. Because the police (and those in the National Guard) are more likely to fear a large mob D. Because violence is the one thing that is most likely to undermine the authority of those in power