ABSTRACT
This is equally a concern with postmodern social theory that eschews empiricism and favours (though with a heavy heart in the case of Lyotard) relativism. This is a significant problem for a postmodern methodology for, as Sayer characterises it, the postmodern
• refuses all talk of truth and falsity;
• denies any relationship between thought and the world;
• rejects the possibility of empirical testing;
• asserts that we do not ‘discover’ things empirically but constitute them socially and theoretically;
• prioritises local knowledges over foundational meta-theories;
• relativises cultural differences (1993).
