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.

Alan Sokal really likes footnotes, which may have made him uniquely qualified as a hoaxer of “science studies”. The original hoax, a purposely and wonderfully nonsensical paper about the epistemology ...