Gottschall, Boyd & Carroll's excellent book Evolution, Literature and Film looks at this. Argues there's been a mellowing of 'theory', not a demise & that 'denaturalisation' (social constructivism) has been internalised even by academics who consider themselves empirical.
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This is very much my perception. Few academics admit to being postmodernists or even to denying objective reality or science but if you try bringing it into your work, there is trouble. 'This is conservative' I was told for saying evolutionary psychology is useful.
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Another time, I singlehandedly condemned women to an 'awful beauty myth fate' by saying that men's attraction to young and beautiful women was rooted in evolutionary psychology rather than socially constructed devaluation & objectification of women coz patriarchy.
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Another time, I was told that my claim that hormones play some part in behavioural differences between men & women was false because prof's friend's little boy had both anger management problems & low testosterone problems. Case closed. I despair.
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I've clearly been extremely lucky on my sociology degree. Post-modernism has been acknowledged, and then ceaselessly mocked. Foucault was described as the best of a bad bunch.
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Whenever I see this kind of thing, I am reminded of the banner motto for The Straight Dope: "Fighting ignorance since 1973. (It's taking longer than we thought.)"
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Have you read A Darwinian Left? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Darwinian_Left …
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