SUMBLOG12 Anthony Giddens

Our society has come a long way in such a short amount of time.  We started at a pre-modern society, then we transit to modernity, and finally here we are at post-modernity.  However the term and concepts of “post-modernity” is not accepted by everyone.  One such person that does not accept the concepts is Anthony Giddens who rather call it radicalized modernity, and assert his own ideas to it.  To me, Giddens’s radicalized modernity have been one of the more difficult concept for me grasp.  From my understanding, Giddens use radicalized modernity to contrast with post-modernity because the concepts for post-modernity are outdated.  The examples of architecture and art that was mentioned in class help really helped make sense of this.  When we think of a skyscraper, we often think of a tall rectangular looking building.  This is the same case with post-modernity because when we look at it we again often see only one thing.  However, that is only our preconceived notion of it, and if we were to focus on the design of each building, we can then see the uniqueness of said building.  This is the same with humans as well because, although we are a part of a society as a whole, each individual within it are different.  Now let’s take a look at art.  Art is always changing; the arts from the past are a lot different from what we considered as art to today.  Just like the concepts of post-modernity and Giddens’s rationalized modernity.  They are different styles of thinking, because one is thought of sometimes ago when society was still young and the other is more modern to fit more mature society.  I’ll like to use the evolution of dance video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg) to help demonstrate this.  The video shows how dance evolve throughout the ages.  At the time a particular kind of dance may seem as cool but looking back it just look silly.  I am sure ten years from now we’ll look back and realize just how stupid twerking really is if not already.  So like I said before Giddens social theory is one of the more difficult topics for me to grasp, and I could be entirely wrong on the subject.  So feel free to drop me a comment and critique it.  I’ll appreciate it very much.