Jencks

At the end of the Jencks article the idea of post Marxist views are brought in as a related theme of post modernism. The theme of return can be related to what we have been discussing of Marx in my Sociology Theory class. We looked at how Marx Materialism perspective looks at how in history we have always in some way relied on the same ideas. How in tribal times we relied on fishing and food. In feudalism we had power in landownership. In capitalism we expanded to power of factory owners vs. labor workers. This shows how we have changed and expanded over time but have always returned to the original idea of needing material items to survive. In the article when discussing Marx, Jencks uses the term “preexisiting patterns as the transcendence of them. We see this through history and society how ideas stay the same but change and expand for the times. This can relate back to language and how language has changed over time to fit society, but there has always been language and writing. This continues to relate and support the quote“ A post industrial society for instance still depends fundamentally on industry matter how much its power structure and economy have moved on to the next level of organization”. We see this supported in Marx theory and through that we can relate it to post modernism and how we continue to relate to the past in art and language, but just make small changes to fit the newer times and adjust to the culture.