Letting the chat out of the bag: deconstruction, privilege, and accounting research

Authors

Cecil E. Arrington, University of WollongongFollow
Jere R. Francis, University of Iowa

RIS ID

58770

Publication Details

Arrington, C. E. & Francis, J. R.. (2005). Letting the chat out of the bag: deconstruction, privilege, and accounting research. In N. B. Macintos & T. Hopper (Eds.), Accounting, the Social, and the Political: Classics, Contemporary and Beyond (pp. 115-124). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Abstract

There are signs on the intellectual scene that we are moving out of an era in the social sciences termed modernism - a belief that separating fact form value, truth form falsity, is just a matter of applying the right version of method.