In the 20th century,
this view was in turn challenged by the Postmodernist movement, which sought to redefine the humanities in more
egalitarian terms suitable for a democratic society.
In the 1960s and 1970s so-called post-structuralist and Postmodernist theory, drawing upon structuralism and phenomenology as much as classical social science,
made a considerable impact on frames of sociological enquiry.