ABSTRACT
Anti-science in social science sometimes takes the more generalised rejectionist or social constructionist forms described in the previous chapter. That is, rejectionist motivations for being against science apply equally to social science with the most usual articulation to be found in postmodernist writings (see, for example, Rosenau 1992; Sarup 1993 for a discussion of this). Similarly ‘standpoint theorists’ or ‘strong programmers’ usually apply their prescriptions to both the natural and social sciences. Indeed the methodological justification for the latter lies in it being subject to the same form of analysis (see for example McCarl Neilsen 1990) as it applies to the natural sciences. However, on the whole the problems I raise for these positions would apply equally when they are held in the social sciences so I will not discuss them further here.
