Postmodern Thinkers and Higher Education: A Sociological Study

In sociological perspective, postmodernism has important for generating new and exciting ideas and postmodernism has produce academic controversies that have lasted for decades. A major arena for postmodern intellectual warfare occurred in institutions of higher education. In the process of post modernization, universities and colleges has been the development of knowledge specialization controlled primarily by professors and contained within the borders of academic disciplines. The related questions have guided postmodernist research into higher education. The first asks, what are contributions of postmodern thinkers on higher education for society? The second question asks how this contribution helps to develop for society. As with postmodernist analysis in general, the postmodernist view of higher education tends to focus on the positive contributions which are knowledge, power, simulation and reality etc. The objective of this paper is to discuss the contribution of postmodern thinkers of sociology with higher education. The methodology based on descriptive in nature as well as secondary sources.