Those who support the notion of ‘modernity’ seem to agree about when we became modern but not when we became post-modern. So there is no watershed or definitive year when one gave way to the other. Some might argue that modernity was displaced by its successor as early as 1945, while others view post-modernity as coming with the new millennium.
Neither view is very persuasive because the 1950s to early 1960s was a time of collective action in politics and people were still strongly constrained by social structures in their capacity to make choices in all areas of their work and home lives. Because the mid-1970s saw a great deal of social, economic and technological change, we might argue that this is probably a more valid time for the birth of post-modernity.
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