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<p>A good starting point may be the roots of knowledge in Europe during the time of <em><font color="red"><strong>Enlightenment</strong></font> </em>(meaning we could now kill our enemy on a larger scale), and how this fed into <strong><font color="red"><em>modernism</em></font></strong>. These issues are discussed in broad terms in the following article on <strong><font color="red">positivism</font></strong> and <font color="red"><strong>post-positivism </strong><font color="#000000">(other related schools of thought are objectivism, realism, ....)  </font></font></p><p>It gets really hairy from here on down - so I leave you with a few sites where you can lose youself. </p><p>A broad overview of Theoretical Paradigms: Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Feminism, <br>Formalism, Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Structuralism, Performativity Theory, and Post-Structuralism <a href="http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/Paradigm/ovrview.htm">http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/Paradigm/ovrview.htm</a> </p><p>A nice synoptic site covering "<strong><em>Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought Resources</em></strong>", a link to "<strong><em>what is post modernism</em></strong>", and reports on the following people (and group): <br><font color="red">Theodor Adorno,  Louis Althusser,  Roland Barthes,  Michael Bakhtin,  Jean Baudrillard,  Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot,  Kenneth Burke,  Jacques Derrida,  Gilles Deleuze,  Terry Eagleton,  Stanley Fish,  Michel Foucault,  Frankfurt School,  Felix Guattari, Jurgen Habermas,  Donna Haraway,  Martin Heidegger,  Max Horkheimer,  Edmund Husserl,  Fredric Jameson,  Jacques Lacan,  Jean Francois Lyotard,  Georg Luk�cs,  Paul de Man,  Herbert Marcuse,  Karl Marx,  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Richard Rorty,  Edward Said,  Charles Taylor,  Ludwig Wittgenstein.  <a href="http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html">http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html</a> </font><font color="black">by Martin Reider at the <em>University of Colorado at Denver,  School of Education.</em></font><font color="#000000"> </font></p><p>A lot of ideas and links on <strong>qualitative research</strong> by Martin Reider at the <em>University of Colorado at Denver,  School of Education.</em><font color="#000000"> </font><a href="http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/pract_res.html">http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/pract_res.html</a>  </p>