Question

Some postmodern sociologists work to show us how all "facts" are created arbitrarily by people with varying degrees of power. This is known as
a. positivism.
b. anomie.
c. qualitative research.
d. deconstructing social phenomena.

Answer 1

The correct answer is D. Deconstructing social phenomena.

Explanation:

For postmodern sociologists, facts about society and history are not objective but subjective, this means reality is constructed by people and especially by those who have power. This makes history and society to be hard to define as there are no facts or static paradigms.

This idea is supported by sociologist through a concept called "deconstruction social phenomena" in which basic ideas and paradigms about society and phenomena on it are examined and question to dismantle them and in this way, determining if they are objective or just arbitrary created. Thus, the concept that describes the methodology used by sociologists to show facts are created is "Deconstructing social phenomena".