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=== Postmodern challenge of normative views of power ===

=== Postmodern challenge of normative views of power ===

Some within the [[postmodern]] and [[post-structuralist]] field claim that power is something that is not in the hands of the few and is rather dispersed throughout society in various ways. As one academic writes, "...postmodernists have argued that due to a variety of inherent biases in the standards by which ”valid“ knowledge has been evaluated...modernist science has tended to reproduce ideological justifications for the perpetuation of long-standing forms of inequality. Thus, it is the strategy of postmodern science...to identify and, thereby, attack the ”deceiving“ power of universalizing scientific [[epistemology|epistemologies]]."<ref>McGettigan, Timothy,[http://www.sociology.org/content/vol003.004/mcgettigan.html Redefining Reality:  

Some within the [[postmodern]] and [[post-structuralist]] field claim that power is something that is not in the hands of the few and is rather dispersed throughout society in various ways. As one academic writes, "...postmodernists have argued that due to a variety of inherent biases in the standards by which ”valid“ knowledge has been evaluated...modernist science has tended to reproduce ideological justifications for the perpetuation of long-standing forms of inequality. Thus, it is the strategy of postmodern science...to identify and, thereby, attack the ”deceiving“ power of universalizing scientific [[epistemology|epistemologies]]." McGettigan, Timothy,[http://www.sociology.org/content/vol003.004/mcgettigan.html] Redefining Reality:  

Epiphany as a Standard of Postmodern Truth], Electronic Journal of Sociology

Epiphany as a Standard of Postmodern Truth], Electronic Journal of Sociology