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Thanks, I shall update towards most postmodernists being less of the extreme philosophical kind and more about practical matters like those.
Most self-titled "postmodernists" I've encountered and discussed with were more of the extreme philosophical kind - the kind that would claim ontologically basic mental entities or some other really weird postulate if asked "But where did the first 'reality' come from if there never was any objective reality for us to base our own ones on?"
As a discipline, postmodernism seems unusually terrible at producing competent practitioners. The average academic chemist is a better scientist than the average postmodernist is as a philosopher.
That said, a lot of conventional wisdom in fields like sociology or Legal Realism have very strong postmodern flavors. Honestly, a lot of the meta-type analysis of norms is using scientific data to show what various humanities thinkers had been saying all along.