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.Conceptually, modernity relates to the  and to , but forms a distinct concept.Whereas the  (ca.1650-1800) invokes a specific movement in Western philosophy, modernity tends to refer only to the social relations associated with the rise of capitalismPoststructuralism - is a term formulated by American academics to mean the diverse works of a series of mid-20th-century French philosophers such as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan & Jean Baudrillard in the 1960s & '70s.A major theme of poststructuralism is instability in the human sciences, because of the complexity of humans & the impossibility of fully escaping structures in order to study them.Postructuralism includes deconstruction & some psychoanalytic theories, that deny the validity of structuralism's method of binary opposition and maintain that meanings & intellectual categories are changing and unstablebase and superstructure - in Marxist theory, human society consists of 2 parts: the base & superstructure; the base includes the forces & relations of production - work conditions, division of labour & property relations - into which people enter to produce the necessities of life.These relations determine society's other relationships and ideas, which are described as its superstructure.The superstructure of a society includes its culture, institutions, political power structures, roles, rituals & state.The base determines the superstructure, yet the superstructure often influences the base; the influence of the base, however, predominates
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