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Postmodernism rejects the assumption that science has a special and privileged claim to truth, a claim that is fundamental to chemical engineering.
In Chapter 2, I demonstrate these claims are motivated specifically be merit concerns: The privileged claim hardship (and effort) so they can continue attributing outcomes to their own merit.
Come on, this argument runs, anyone who owns an anti-car-theft device -- LoJack in the United States or NavTrak in Britain -- is using radio tracking to make a privileged claim on government services.
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But there are solider adversaries among the more radical practitioners of "science and technology studies" (STS sociologists and historians of science who treat it as a social activity like any other with no privileged claims to truth.
"We tend to denounce 'conspiracy theories' because we are skeptical of privileged claims to knowledge and of strong claims of human agency.
It's because they have those same "privileged claims to knowledge" and "strong claims of human agency," that Peter was talking about.
Finally, the privileged also claim personal effort in response to evidence of privilege, so long as that privilege is ingroup relevant (Experiment 7) and they have not previously been able to claim hardships as an alternate defense (Experiment 8).
Young adults are forced to turn down opportunities as they watch peers from economically privileged backgrounds claim their spots.
They are a privileged caste, claiming to serve others when their principal concern is to perpetuate their own power, preferences and prestige.Our famously unwritten constitution is a shameful sham.
Because of this I am particularly wary of very wealthy privileged people claiming to "empathize".
Meanwhile, as long as universities claim privileged public sector status, their agony of bondage to the state will continue.
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