Postmodernism is what happened after modernism.

Modernism was the

movement that entailed a new way of thinking about art, literature,
architecture, science and socialism. It was the period after World War I and
was characterised by experimentation and industrialism. Postmodernism
occurred in the latter part of the 20th century and questions the ideas of
modernism. Postmodernism insists on separating art and popular culture
and can be best described using the saying anything goes. The
postmodern era questioned the theories of the past. Homosexuals, women
and social outcasts were better accepted in this era. Therefore cultural
identity became one of the central themes for post modernism. The
postmodern era is when society started questioning everything they
believed in and previous theories were scrutinised. Postmodernism was a
time when people reconsidered what they had previously thought was
normal. Ironically, postmodernism was the time period when all theories
worth questioning, were put in quotation marks. Normal, reality,
society, all examined and rethought. The line between right and wrong
became blurred, we can see the effect of this when considering the use of
drugs and the irresponsible activity that went on this time period.
Postmodernism is an interesting concept and we can see the imprint it left
on todays society through literary texts and architecture from this period.
Postmodernism is the abandonment of prejudices and assumptions of
modernism - the social movement which took place between the
beginning of the 20th century to the 1960's, where people began to move
away from traditional views and opinions. Postmodernism is the societal
and cultural movements and transformations after World War II.
Postmodernism is associated with the rise of pop-culture and mass
production, and the movement is the mixing of culture and the
dismantling the modernist ideas of race, gender, and progress. There are
two kinds of postmodernism; the historical or political period we are
currently in, or the cultural movement that uses various strategies to
change what is seen as "normal" in modernism. The main aim of the
postmodernism movement is to challenge and pull apart metanarratives,
which are big picture stories or all-encompassing ideas that, in post
modernism, often refer to historical events or attempt to provide universal
truths. Post modernism attempts to dismantle these metanarratives as
they group all of humanity into one, thus removing individualism.
Postmodernism removes all prejudice and assumption and invites people
to embrace the "contradictions, irony, and profusion of pop and mass
culture". In essence, postmodernism rejects the totalising theories and
ideologies of modernism. It aims to challenge the idea of a "universal
truth" or "metanarrative". It works for the "demassification" of everything
and works in niche markets and subcultures, each with a different set of
beliefs and traditions, as opposed to modernism, which advocates for
unity and a universal understanding of everything/universal set of beliefs.
While modernism asks for a complete sense of self, postmodernism says
that people have conflicting personalities and fragmented sense of self. It
challenges the preconceived notions of "normality" in regards to sexuality,
race, gender, and sense of self, dictated in modernism and really, the
movement strives to pull apart the sense of unity created by modernism.
While modernism works for a unified human race, in touch with their
entire self, postmodernism pulls apart the idea of "one humanity" in
favour of lots of smaller, more diverse groups. Postmodernism challenges
the traditional ideas of modernism and works to dismantle ideas of pop-
culture, unity, and metanarratives.