Terrible use of jargon

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2010-04-05 The Future of Family Science

Stan J. Knapp of Brigham Young University conditionally
prognosticates a jargon-free future for his fellow family
scientists:

“Authorizing Family Science: An Analysis of the Objectifying
Practices of Family Science Discourse,” Stan J. Knapp, Journal of
Marriage and Family, vol. 64, no. 4 (Nov., 2002), pp. 1038-1048.
<http://www.jstor.org/pss/3600001>. Knapp sums up his entire
field:

“Contemporary objectifying practices in family science discourse,
grounded in an objectivist epistemological framework, often
deauthorize the scientific text and fail to frame the constructs
in an explicit argumentative and theoretical context…. Adopting
an alternative set of objectifying practices, grounded in a
constructionist epistemological framework that aims to fully
authorize and advance its knowledge claims in an open, self-
reflexive, argumentative process will invigorate the importance
of theory in the field and promote the production of more
empirically justifiable and scientific knowledge claims about
families.”

from The mini-Annals of Improbable Research (“mini-AIR”)
April 2010, issue number 2010-04. ISSN 1076-500X.

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