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Positivism vs. Interpretivism vs. Postmodernism - Quora

• Positivism: Only verifiable (and refutable) scientific inferences are "knowledge". All the rest is emotion and psychology.
• Interpretivism: The social sciences are the realms of "non positivist" knowledge, and are not subject to simplistic scientific verifications/refutations.
• PostModernism: All knowledge has social infrastructure. One cannot disentangle them completely. So what constitutes knowledge is socially constructed, and not "impartial" or "objective".

Capitalism vs. socialism

Types of schools in Australia

• Govt / Public
• Selective
• Catholic (Per Year 3,500 AUD)
• Private
• Gift and talented (semi selective)

Great migration - African American migration from the southern states...

Postmodernism

Relates to western thought; has three eras:

1. Pre modern:
• Before science came
• There were kings
• Church held roost
• Church issued bulls - Pope could issues - like fatwa
2. Modernity (of Europe, US, etc.)
• Challenge to church
• Role for science
• Separate role for religion
• Industry
• Technology starts
• Capitalism
• Free enterprise
• Material success
• Slavery & genocide, Colonial loot leading to wealth - Rockefeller, Phillip Morris, etc.
• Done brilliant things due to Science, industrialisation, etc.
3. Post modernity
• 20th century
• When they realised modernity produced some ugly things - communism, Nazism, etc.
• There is a crisis
• Is the latest fad
• It attacks modernity (attacks slavery, exclusivity)
• Attacked grand narratives of modernity
• Indians lack the context of our own culture and civilization, suffer from an inferiority complex, brought post-modernity into India, started "Deconstructing" and started the "Indian Grand Narrative".

• Modernism started with the industrial revolution. 
• Modernism saw attempts to explain society, human behavior, politics, sexuality with all-embracing theories called Grand Narratives.
• Modernism rejected culture and tradition.
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Derrida on incompleteness of text and "Author is dead"

Jacques Derrida was the best-known French philosopher of the 80s and 90s, yet many find it difficult to grasp his ideas. He asked complex philosophical questions about texts and textuality. He invented deconstructionism, which emphasizes the necessary incompleteness of texts. That is to say, “Deconstruction is used to show that a work does not adequately address something.” (Faulconer, Deconstruction, p.4) Derrida argued that there are many possible interpretations of any given text, and readers can play with texts as if playing with toys. According to Derrida, “what we get when we read a text is not an objective account of logos or even what the author really meant, but our present interpretation or understanding of the text itself. This understanding becomes so to speak, our own [text] of the text.” (quoted by Ozmone & Craver in the Philosophical Foundations of Education, p368.) So Derrida disputed the idea that the meaning of a text does not change. Moreover, he challenged the author’s intentions, and shows that there may be numerous reasonable interpretations of a text. I agree with Derrida about these things. This is where the idea of ‘the author is dead’ arises: once the text is written, the author’s input loses its significance.

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