Postmodernism is mostly associated with the time after 1968. However, opinions differ as to whether postmodernism is a period, a set of styles, of a broader set of politics and ideologies (pg. 311). Postmodernism basically challenges modernity. It questions whether progress is actually a good thing or not because no one knows how anything will turn out, so what makes it always good that we are progressing?
Postmodernism is distinguished by the idea that there is not one but many truths, and that the notions of truth are culturally and historically relative constructions. Therefore, postmodernism is described as a "questioning of master narratives (or metanarratives)." A master narrative is what explains society, and the world, in comprehensive terms. Examples of this include: religion, science, Enlightenment myths of progress, and other theories that explain life; they describe progress towards a certain goal.
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