Postmodernism Paradigm

1. Who are the leading theorists of Postmodernism?

• a. Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard

• b. Derrida, Lyotard, Aristotle

• c. Lyotard, Foucault, Locke

• a. Foucault, Descartes, Derrida

2. Who published Postmodern Condition?

• a. Foucault

• b. Derrida

• c. Lyotard

• d. Kant

3. Postmodernism is considered the successor of __________?

• a. Structuralism

• b. Modernism

• c. Realism

• d. Progressivism

4. What is the postmodernism paradigm?

• a. It is a mix of philosophies of the middle age, the classic era, and contemporary times.

• b. It is a philosophical stream that contends with the pre-modern era and stance.

• c. It is the philosophy that arises to react against the tenets, intellectual assumptions and values of modernism to interpret reality and knowledge in society.

• d. It is a paradigm initiated before the pre-modern era.

5. What is one tenet of postmodernism?

• a. There is an absolute truth that can be known by the scientific method.

• b. There are numerous theories, but none can be considered absolute truth (universal truth).

• c. There is no absolute truth, but subjectiveness can construct an absolute truth for everyone.

• d. The truth is a scientific universal truth.

6. What are some important characteristics of the epistemology of the postmodernism paradigm?

• a. It adopts a critical methodology to question the truth taken for granted.

• b. It denies the implementation of a modern scientific method, and reflection is the path to acquiring knowledge.

• c. Reality is socially constructed and created only via speech/writing/art, & forms of expression, not objective; reality is in constant flux.

• d. Reality is not changing.

7. Postmodernism in Higher Education is NOT designed to:

• a. Promote social justice, reciprocity or trust to emancipated groups.

• b. Reinforce hierarchies that exclude emancipated groups.

• c. Question how policies are written.

• d. Question the modernism.

8. Postmodernism is:

• a. A transformative paradigm.

• b. An emancipatory paradigm.

• c. It is designed to critique modernism including power, BUT it does not change anything. 

• d. A positivist paradigm.

9. In organizational theory, postmodernism...

• a. identifies a problem that needs to be changed.

• b. questions our modern world as the world is evolving daily.

• c. is a practical paradigm that supports change.

• d. proposes practical change.