1. Who are the leading theorists of Postmodernism?
Postmodernism Paradigm

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a. Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard
b. Derrida, Lyotard, Aristotle
c. Lyotard, Foucault, Locke
a. Foucault, Descartes, Derrida
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2. Who published Postmodern Condition?
a. Foucault
b. Derrida
c. Lyotard
d. Kant
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3. Postmodernism is considered the successor of __________?
a. Structuralism
b. Modernism
c. Realism
d. Progressivism
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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