PAP 3370 Study Guide - Final Guide: Instrumental And Value Rationality, Language Game, Linguistic Turn
19 Dec 2016
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PAP3370 – Final Dissertation
- Post-modernism – post-structuralism – organizational reality
- Post-modernism can be defined by two mechanisms: a conception of social
transformation, and life moving from traditional to modern
- Post-modern epistemology
o Linguistic turn in social sciences
o Post-modernist researchers are ultimately reluctant to propose change
- Science works on abstraction; it is only communicated through language
- Reality is seen as an ethical position in an organization
- Jean-Francois Lyotard, a sociologist and scholar, questioned the value of
progress.
o Argued that post-modernism challenged the idea of knowledge
o Progress = Systems Theory
o Instrumental rationality, efficiency
- Post-modern condition of knowledge; he said that it is driven by disbelief towards
a grand narrative
o Notably, it challenged the idea of progress
- Value of Progress: The system theory rationality, instrumental rationality given
efficiency
- Liberation of human beings to acknowledge that science is a language game. No
privilege; science is about performance
- What is progress in organizational theory?
o Challenging science (post-modernism building blocks)
- Post-Structuralism – Questions the dynamics of colonialism and its effects on
society and its social structure
o E.g. How colonial architecture was borrowed more often
- In second generation, there are two important contributions:
o Social action through social transformation
o Idea that critical theory may have epistemology (theory of knowledge and interest)
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Document Summary
Post-modernism can be defined by two mechanisms: a conception of social transformation, and life moving from traditional to modern. Post-modern epistemology: linguistic turn in social sciences, post-modernist researchers are ultimately reluctant to propose change. Science works on abstraction; it is only communicated through language. Reality is seen as an ethical position in an organization. Jean-francois lyotard, a sociologist and scholar, questioned the value of progress: argued that post-modernism challenged the idea of knowledge, progress = systems theory, instrumental rationality, efficiency. Post-modern condition of knowledge; he said that it is driven by disbelief towards a grand narrative: notably, it challenged the idea of progress. Value of progress: the system theory rationality, instrumental rationality given efficiency. Liberation of human beings to acknowledge that science is a language game. What is progress in organizational theory: challenging science (post-modernism building blocks) Post-structuralism questions the dynamics of colonialism and its effects on society and its social structure: e. g.
