The recent postmodern turn in sociology has been very powerful in transforming the landscape of the discipline. By questioning the basic epistemological and metaphysical character of positivism, the ...

Postmodernism charges that sociological methods project ways of thinking and being from the past onto the future, and that sociological forms of presentation are rhetorical defenses of ideologies.

Voltaire loved to mock the pretensions of scholastic philosophythe notion that some grand, intellectualist construction would explain any fact, the conviction that one’s own mental categories were the ...