Book Review

While the belief in the power of science, even in the social field, reached a peak in the period after World War II, there also emerged a critique. Con-tributors like Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos, Toulmin, Polanyi and others directed their attacks against the tools of science, in particular such ideas as the objective language, the neutral observer, the unequivocal empirical observation, and the necessary logics. Their focus was on the discontinuities of science. They focused, however, less on the other major problem of dis-continuity: that of the objects. In particular in the social field, those that are under investigation: people, groups, organizations, societies, are not stable, either. They are continuously on the move, continuously taking on new shapes and forms. How can this be handled from a research perspective? How can we create knowledge about phenomena that will, in all likelihood, have undergone change by the time the paper is published? One response to the challenges associated with “the double discontinuity” were trends like post-modernism, post-structuralism, deconstructivism, an