Postmodern Methodology

Question 1

What do Postmodernist argue about the ‘facts and knowledge’ gained by sociologists?

Answer 1

Are simply one way of constructing and making sense of the world and that all views are equally valid

Question 2

What does Lyotard suggest about knowledge?

Answer 2

That is is ‘story-telling’ with no way of distinguishing between true and untrue stories

Question 3

What does Tyler argue?

Answer 3

Ethnographies should be used to record the view points of the many different people in society

Question 4

What is a criticism of postmodern methodology?

Answer 4

That it is too relativistic (knowledge simply depends on your view point

Question 5

What does Alvesson suggest?

Answer 5

That postmodern methodology can be used to refine traditional methodology instead of being used to reject it.