In political science, postmodernism is used to question those in power and decision-making structures. Although the theory of postmodernism is often used, it has limitations and weaknesses. These weaknesses include: Embracing extreme relativism, a postmodern approach to understanding texts can be destructive because it reduces all texts in the same way to the same conclusions, postmodernists insist that their way of investigating a question is the only way good and that whatever the social and political agendas they support are better than others