Postmodernism

Question 1

In Western Philosophy…

Answer 1

It’s a late 20th Century movement characterised by broad skepticism, subjectivism and relativism.

Question 2

A general suspicion..

Answer 2

Suspicion of reason and an acute sensitivity to the role of ideology in asserting and maintaining economic and political power.

Question 3

Characterised by

Answer 3

Late 20th Century movement in arts, architecture, literature, anthropology, etc. Departure from modernism and its certainties. Re-evaluation of established categories and norms. New awareness about style itself.

Question 4

Situatedness

Answer 4

Recognition of partiality (bias in favour of one person or thing). How one’s fieldwork and analysis is shaped by historical, biographical and socio-political relationships.

Question 5

Reflexivity

Answer 5

Recognition of one’s situatedness as a researcher. Reflection on one’s own projections, Rather than assume one’s objectiveness- one has to be reflective.