Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences Quotes

“Post-modern methodology is post-positivist or anti-positivist. As substitutes for the "scientific method," the affirmatives look to feelings, personal experience, empathy, emotion, intuition, subjective judgment, imagination, as well as diverse forms of creativity and play. But the actual content of these terms and their methodological significance are relatively vague and difficult to communicate to others. The skeptical post-modernists might deny most of these as substitutes for method because, they argue, we can never really know anything, not even our own feelings and emotions.”
― Pauline M. Vaillancourt Rosenau, Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences: Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions

“The post-modern view—there is no truth, and all is construction—is itself the ultimate contradiction. By making this statement post-modernists assume a position of privilege. They assert as true their own view that "there is no truth." In so doing they affirm the possibility of truth itself.”
― Pauline M. Vaillancourt Rosenau, Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences: Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions

“Almost all post-modernists reject truth even as a goal or ideal because it is the very epitome of modernity. Truth is an Enlightenment value and subject to dismissal on these grounds alone. Truth makes reference to order, rules, and values; depends on logic, rationality, and reason, all of which the post-modernists question.”
― Pauline M. Vaillancourt Rosenau, Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences: Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions