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Ann Arbor, MI 48106 DOXOLOGICAL BRICOLAGE: METHODOLOGY IN THE POSTMODERN: THE POLITICS OF RESEARCH THEORY IN EDUCATION DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By James Joseph Scheurich, B.S., M.S. * * * * * The Ohio State University 1992 Dissertation Committee: Approved by Patti Lather Co-Advisor Robert Donmoyer £drrcational ^Rplicy & Lgadershii Brad Mitchell risor Educational Policy & Leadership College of Education To Patti Spencer Corinna and Jasper Spencer-Scheurich, My Children Jim and Bea Scheurich My Parents Reiko Mizutani My Teacher ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS One of the reasons I came to Ohio State University to complete my Ph.D. was because Patti Lather was here. She fulfilled all of my expectations. No one has influenced me intellectually more than she has. I thoroughly appreciate everything she has given me as advisor and as friend. My other advisor, Bob Donmoyer, has provided tremendous support. He gave me two years of fruitful, engaging, and provocative intellectual conversation. He patiently critiqued my ideas and my work. As my source of financial support, he always gave me considerable space to pursue my own interests. His support, in so many ways, has been key to my success. Brad Mitchell, the third member of my committee, has truly treated me as a good friend. We have had wonderful conversations that reached beyond typical academic boundaries, and he has provided me much warmth and support. Mickey Imber, George Crawford, and Susan Twombly of the University of Kansas, where I was before I came to Ohio State University, provided excellent guidance and good friendship. Without Patti Spencer, whom I truly love, I would have neither began nor finished. Without my children, Corinna and Jasper, it would all mean much less. iii VITA 1967............................... B.S. , University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 1968-1969..........................High school teacher, Chi cago and Raytown, Mo. 1970-1972..........................Reporter/business manager of a youth newspaper 1972-1974.......................... Instructor, special under graduate program, Univer sity of Kansas 1975-1977......................... Research assistant, Univer sity of Kansas 1975-1980............ .............. Community development organizing, Lawrence, Ks. 1981............................... M.S. , University of Kansas 1980-1990.......................... Director of Evaluation Ser vices, Social Service Agencies, Lawrence, Ks. 1990-1992.......................... Research assistant, The Ohio State University Publications Scheurich, James Joseph; Imber, Michael. Educational Reforms Can Reproduce Societal Inequities: A Case Study. Educational Administration Quarterly. 27.:3, 1991. Donmoyer, Robert; Imber, Michael; and Scheurich, James Joseph. The Knowledge Base in Educational Administration: Alternative Perspectives. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, in press. Scheurich, James Joseph. Old Metaphors and New: A Poststructural Analysis of School Administration. Review iv Journal of Philosophy and Social Science. 16:1&2, 1991. Scheurich, Jim and Lather, Patti. Paradigmatic Compulsions. Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, in press. Lastovicka, John L. ; Murry, John P.; Joachimathaler, Erich A. ; Bhalla, Gaurav; and Scheurich, Jim. A Lifestyle Typology to Model Young Male Drinking aru Driving. Journal of Consumer Research. 1988. Scheurich, Jim. The Fatality Causing Drunk Driver and Mass Media Countermeasures. In Alcohol. Drugs, and Traffic Safety. 1983. Scheurich, Jim. Driving While Intoxicated: Kansas Public Opinion. Abstracts and Reviews in Alcohol and Driving. 3: 10-12, 1982. McDermott, Diane and Scheurich, Jim. The Logarithmic Normal Distribution in Relation to the Epidemiology of Drug Abuse. United Nations Bulletin on Narcotics. 24:1, 1977. McDermott, Diane, Scheurich, Jim, and McDermott, Leroy. Social Dysfunctionality and Community Drug Use: A Regional Anthropological Investigation. Journal of Community Psychology. 6:1, 1978. FIELDS OF STUDY Major Field: Education Studies in Educational Policy and Leadership v Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.............................................iii VITA.......................................................... iv Chapter 1 ......................................................1 What Is A Title? What Is An Author? What Is This Work? What is a title?............................................1 What are my titles?....................................... 11 What is an author?........................................ 17 What is rhetoric?......................................... 20 How can the reader misread this work?.................. 21 Chapter I references...................................... 3 0 Chapter I I................................................... 33 The Postmodern Politics of Epistemology: Social Relativism Epistemology....... 33 Realism................................................... 35 My doxology: Social or postmodernist relativism........ 41 Three criticisms of social relativism................... 46 Two postfoundational or pragmatic alternatives to socialrelativism...................................... 60 A social relativist critique of scientific realism 67 The politics of research..................................72 vi Chapter II references.....................................91 Chapter III.................................................. 98 The Paradigmatic Transgressions of Validity Originary validity....................................... 98 Successor validity...................................... 101 Interrogated validity...................................104 Transgressive validity..................................108 Imperial validity....................................... Ill Validity redux.......................................... 115 Chapter III references..................................121 Chapter I V.................................................. 125 A Postmodernist Review of Interviewing: Dominance, Resistance, Chaos/Freedom Textual interpretations.................................125 Conventional interviewing critiqued.....................129 Mishler's alternative critiqued........................ 137 Dominance, resistance, chaos/freedom.................. 149 Implications for interviewing.......................... 157 Textual representations................................ 168 Chapter IV references...................................176 Chapter V ................................................... 180 That Which Cannot Be Contained Within A Title And other Perturbatory Fragments I disseminate a transgression of my own textual politics............................................... 180 vii My politics..............................................186 Freedom.................................................. 189 One possible passing conclusion in which I somewhat interrogate myselves and this work ......... 191 A supplement to this work.............................. 2 02 Chapter V references.................................... 211 References.................................................. 212 viii Chapter I What Is A Title? What Is An Author? What Is This Work? The author [or title] also constitutes a principal of unity [my emphasis] in writing where any unevenness of production is ascribed to changes caused by evolution, maturation, or outside influence. In addition, the author [or title] serves to neutralize the contradictions that are found in...texts. Governing this function is the belief that there must be— at a particular level of an author's [or reader's] thought, of his conscious or unconscious desire— a point where the contradictions are resolved, where the incompatible elements can be shown to relate to one another or to cohere around a fundamental and originating