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Behind dominant narratives about the nature of reality and what constitutes knowledge is usually the masked exercise of power; under the guise of rationality and progress are self-serving ideologies (Dowd, 1991; Gottdiener, 1993). Truth claims are sometimes dressed up as straightforward eyewitness observation. Doing so halts discourse and legitimates the repression or exclusion of other views. For instance, some people claim privileged knowledge about the United States during World War II because they were alive at the time, as though everyone in that situation formed the same, deterministic, or singularly logical interpretations.
For instance, as in several studies of the past 50 years, a study of children between 3- and 10-years old tried to measure racial attitudes. ’ ” as though their answers would reveal their racial attitudes rather than how the children momentarily 32 a postmodern psychology of asian americans felt about colored squares (Liu & Blila, 1995, p. 147). ” Given the variety within any race, however, the children might have accurately responded that a particular photographed person had bangs, a nose, or ears like they did and regarded those characteristics as more important than skin color.
For example, the promotion of touchstone rationality and value neutrality are values behind modernist psychology’s façade of scientiﬁc neutrality. When social scientists lay out research ﬁndings as simply facts, apart from underlying assumptions and behind the shield of following scientiﬁc protocols, they augment the mystique and power of their knowledge claims. Much of the power of scientiﬁc narratives rests with a rhetorical authority socially assigned to scientists as fact ﬁnders. Although those who know scientiﬁc procedures are supposedly anointed with the ability to produce knowledge, behavioral scientists could instead be viewed as people who have just learned to interpret behaviors in prescribed ways.