Today’s Social Science Courses—More Feelings, Less Facts
By Philip Carl Salzman December 3, 2018
The social sciences are a “broad church†or “big tent,†containing many perspectives, some in complete contradiction with the others. At the moment, there are two dominant “schools,†or heuristic theories, and one minor “school†of social science.
One major school is postmodernism, which rejects the scientific approach, arguing that there is no such thing as objectivity and that everything is subjective; it denies the existence of “truth†on the grounds that everyone has his or her own truth and insists that “master narratives†(other than postmodernism) must be rejected, theories are futile, methodology is false objectivity, generalizations are invalid, and explanations are baseless. Thus, in this view, there is no “reality,†merely a cacophony of claims, and there can be no authoritative body of knowledge. Postmodernism is, therefore, a form a nihilism which denies the possibility of understanding.
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