D.M. Gorman “writes”:http://www.policyreview.org/FEB03/gorman.html in Policy Review about policy researchers (in this case health promotion researchers) who claim to be scientific but resist evaluating their projects using measurable outcomes. He recounts the hostility he encountered when he tried to challenge the validity of a project he encountered. He also cites the example of “Dr Nina Wallerstein”:http://hsc.unm.edu/fcm/docm/faculty.html who wrote a paper about the evaluation by a government agency of a health promotion project in New Mexico:
bq. Rather than assessing program outcomes, what Wallerstein chooses to do is describe her learnings (sic) concerning the power relationships between myself as evaluator and the communities during the implementation of the evaluation… The agency seems not to have shared Wallersteins emancipatory ideology and by the second year of the project had the temerity to demand more accountability from the community groups in terms of the actual activities that were being undertaken. For Wallerstein this was not a case of the state government acting responsibly with tax dollars, but rather an expression of the illegitimate abuses of power over others by the funding agency.
bq. True to her postmodernist creed, Wallerstein challenges the positivist social scientists claim to objectivity and value-free science, claiming instead that science is just one of a multiplicity of truths and the researcher just one of many storytellers and interpreters of what happens in the world. Even worse, scientific data represent the power/knowledge discourse of positivist researchers, and this is frequently at odds with the subjugated knowledge of the community at whose expense they pursue their own interests.
Without reading Wallerstein’s paper in full, it is hard to really judge whether she was deserving of the criticism Gorman heaps on her, but he certainly identifies an interesting issue – whether postmodernism has a place in social science which is being applied to achieve practical goals.
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