Research Issues- Postmodernism

two major crises in research methodology:

 (i) the crisis of legitimation (to what extent are the notions of reliability and validity still meaningful in the light of a posture that is said to approach an 'anything goes' standpoint); and

 (ii) the crisis of representation (to what extent is it possible to represent the world view of 'the other' without it being merely a construction of the researcher).