Title: Postmodernism - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Headings: Postmodernism
Postmodernism
Postmodernism: Philosophical Aspects
Postmodernism in Sociology
Postmodernism in Geography
Postmodernism: Methodology
2.4 Relativism and Questioning Postmodernists
Photographic image issues
Postmodernism defined
Archaeology
Conclusion
Art History
5 Methodological Pluralism
Organizations
Museum
Family Systems
Narrative family therapy
Warfare and Military Studies, Overview
The Postmodern Military

Content: and in expanding geography's impact on both the social sciences and the humanities. Although still controversial, with few geographers specifically labeling themselves postmodernists, postmodernism has probably had a more intense and far-reaching impact on geography than it has on any other social science discipline. View chapter Purchase book
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Postmodernism: Methodology
P.V. Rosenau, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001
2.4 Relativism and Questioning Postmodernists
Postmodernism is plagued, because of its European philosophical precursors, with the charge of relativism (Gellner 1992) but many postmodernists defy this heritage and reject relativism. This is especially true for the postmodernists who come from a philosophically committed heritage: Marxism, feminism, environmentalism, peace movements, ecology groups, and religious studies (Griffin 1988, 1990, Kumar 1995, Leonard 1997 ). This leads them to argue that while deconstruction is an interesting first step to a postmodern methodology, it is limited because its goal is to undo all constructions. Deconstruction's intent is not to improve, revise, or offer a better version of the text, so they reject it. Postmodernism, in this view, must ultimately move to reconstruction and by extension, methodology remains essential.