ABSTRACT
Modernism was an aesthetic ideology which developed during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and which informed the thinking and practice of many radical artists. As Charles Jencks, a leading architectural historian and theorist, has explained, the term 'post-modernism' signifies a half-way house: it is clear what is being left behind, but it is not yet clear what is replacing it. Cultural pluralism did have the positive effect of putting multiculturalism on the education agenda and some power and influence did accrue to minority groups - feminists, gays and blacks - during the late 1960s and the 1970s. Politically speaking, pluralism is a liberal philosophy, one which recognizes that most societies consist of a number of different political ideologies, religions and cultures. In Western Europe and the United States the advent of cultural pluralism did not mean that overall social control ceased because power had been devolved to the various factions within society.
