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Foucault, Michel EducationSources.ca Topic Index Against Post-Modernism A Marxist Critique Resource Type: Book Published: 1982 Callinocos argues that the relativism preached by post-modernist leaves us with no objective criteria by which to reject those who would falsify the past. Harter's Precept: Review of The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 1997 Hamilton gives three major examples of erroneous theses that gained the status of fact in social science despite the absence of evidentiary support: (1) Max Weber's thesis that the Protestant Ethic spurred the advance of capitalism; (2) the widely accepted thesis that Hitler's main electoral support came from the lower middle classes (the despised petit bourgeoisie of Marxism); and (3) Michel Foucault's thesis that the modern prison evolved not as a more humane alternative to the cruel physical punishments of earlier centuries, but as part of a wide-ranging scheme by sinister forces to enforce a pervasive social conformity. The Social Misconstruction of Reality Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 Analyzes erroneous theses that gained the status of fact in social science despite the absense of evidentiary support, and examines why this happened.

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