A Comparison of Sangam Society and Postmodern Society

Abstract

The Sangam age society is an ethnic society based on the divisions of five thinai lands and a society that accommodates pluralistic ideas. In this context, postmodernism, which originated in western art and literature, is seen in the Tamil context as a thought to bring out the state of society after the nineties. On this basis, the definitions of the society of the Sangam age and the definitions of postmodern society are taken up. The comparison of these two societies also provides a comparatively critical explanation. Love has been transformed from being the basis of marriage to today's casteist background. The man-leader and his friend's guidance have been the cure for the malady of the Marutham woman. But the lovesickness of a woman who is in love today is cured by her old age. In this article, the situation where women are fighting for their livelihood in adulthood like Ovvai, admired by Athiyaman, and the situation where education has been liberalized, privatized, and commercialized by globalization in a society where the importance of education has been emphasized, has been explained in a way that compares the society during the Sangam period and the post-modern society.