on power-law-distributed phenom-ena, we show how the order-seeking regime of the modernists and the richness-seeking regime of the postmodernists draw on different ontological assumptions that can be integrated within a single overarching framework. The study of social systems such as organiza-tions has

within the postmodernist perspective is concerned with the various aspects of knowing – that is, it is primarily epistemological in focus. In contrast, traditional realist approaches are more ontological in focus in their acceptance and concern for a reality external to perception. Realist

Abstract- The mission statement embodies certain beliefs about the management culture of the organisation which can be examined and placed within underlying theoretical contexts. This paper examines postmodernism in this respect which, in addition to forming a critique of modernist approaches, posits alternative views about philosophy, organisation and subsequently IS/IT theory. The study applies an ethnographic case research methodology where data was collected from sixteen interviewees employed within a multinational financial services group. In this way, the organisational mission statement was used as a vehicle for analysing the contribution of postmodern approaches to the management of the IS/IT function. The influential Ashridge Model was adopted to map the findings of the study which suggest three propositions for postmodernism in providing i) cultural context, ii) a textual or ‘deconstructive ’ analysis and iii) an ethnographic empathy for further IS/IT research. 1.

The Iranian filmmaker, Asghar Farhadi, has contributed to national cinema of Iran which is indicative of people with a rich cultural and socio-political history. The iconography of Iranian cinema represents a thought provoking portrait of socio-ethical backdrop. Farhadi’s fame is indebted to his universal film A Separation which won the best academy award 2012. One year later, he directed The Past which nominated for 2013 the best foreign film in Cannes film festival. The Past, is an intricate drama which portraits the nostalgia for the lost wholeness of the past. This film tries to indicate that how man tries to justify his past that is stemmed from disappointment and failure by incorrect choices in life. By borrowing insights from Lyotard’s question of postmodernism, this paper attempts to study the working of postmodernism’s characteristics in Asghar Farhadi’s The Past. This paper concludes that all those features and characteristics of postmodern features together have been the real key to the sense of relativism in terms of recognition, truth, narrations, and culture on the cornerstone which postmodernism is built upon.

functionalism) became obsolete Nowadays i t s eems mo re o r l e ss fashionable to speak disdainfully of the Hochschule Für Gestaltug Ulm. The primary explanation for this would appear to be many decades during which the Ulm doctrine exerted a crushing dominance over design education. Ulm was the blueprint for all leading European design

qualitative methodologists to spawn new terms that either substituted for the scientific language of earlier periods or added new ideas to them. More recently, with postmodernist perspectives in fashion, the whole issue of whether we ought to be trying to generate criteria for judging the quality of research

This paper explores the question of using postmodernist methodology for characterizing the current situation in education. It points to diversity of alternative education having plurality as the key ground for educational policy and educational institutions functioning. Bricolage as an alternative

and post-modernist perspective

This paper examines the theoretical framework in which we construct our terms of reference when examining patients from an integrated Meyerian biopsychosocial perspective. We coin the term neuro-epistemology, defining the frame for scientific inquiry into the nature and status of knowledge in neuro

The paper argues that within social sciences, efforts to represent the "other " are simultaneously efforts at understanding major social science problems and the representations of self within them. In this perspective psychoanalysis and tantric thought are compared. Tantra is seen