Postmodern methodology

Question 1

What perspective are postmodernists likely to take ?

Answer 1

The interpretivist perspective/ qualitative methods because this would enable people to record the life that they want

Question 2

What do postmodernist question regarding methodology ?

Answer 2

Postmodernists challenge the basis of existing research methods because they question they idea of making generalisations about the social world.
- They suggest that the facts sociologists make about the world are simply a construct and all views are valid because there is not one single true description of the world

Question 3

What does Lytotard argue ?

Answer 3

He argues that all knowledge is storytelling because there isn’t one way of distinguishing between true and untrue stories

Question 4

What is an ethnography ?

Answer 4

Ethnography involves the collection of different peoples stories and can be used to record the view point of many people in the world- Tyler

Question 5

What is Tylers ideas ?

Answer 5

He suggests that ethnography’s are the best way of studying peoples live because the researcher would require no special skill or have to interpret the accounts of the subjects .

Question 6

What is an evaluation of the postmodern methodology ?

Answer 6

• Too relativistic ( the idea that knowledge simply depends o your viewpoint ) for example ethnography it is very similar to fiction thus questioning the usefulness of this theory
• Alvesson states that postmodern methodology can be useful to refine traditional methodology ..

Question 7

Why is postmodern methodology useful ?

Answer 7

It can be used to question the idea that there are two sociologies