OH NO! NOT ANOTHER DICHOTOMY: Reply to Kivisto.

In this article the author presents his views on an article by Augustana Kivisto. Author's paper was not about creating a sociological tradition that helps to think about moral obligations and boundaries, but about exposing the contradictions of all pompous arguments that invoke some transcendent concept of morality, in the Nieizschean sense. Kivisto is way off when he asks how one would respond to such phenomena as gay-bashing neo-Nazi skinheads" or the Asian Indian practice of sati, Author's intent was to discuss sociology. Postmodern ideas relative to the analysis of the knowledge-power articulation have little to do with deconstructionism which calls into question the foundations of western philosophy through textual analysis. Yet, that is what Kivisto seems to think postmodernism is all about. Deconstruction of metaphysics are a dead end for sociology because they lead to idealism and relativism. The twin matters of foundations and relevancy are also pertinent to the way sociology seeks to legitimate itself as a held. Currently mainstreamers argue for a number of selectively growing traditions which are actually very recent constructions in the organization of sociological knowledge.