“…Since the subject of distributive justice embraces not only the economic analysis of rights but also ethics, morality, and religion, then macromarketing can only be a science if science is defined in a manner to permit macromarketing to maintain the human values of its researchers. (p. 9) Like Firat (1985aFirat ( , 1985b, , Benton (1985aBenton ( , 1985b, Heede (1985), O'Shaughnessy and Holbrook (1988), Arnould and Fischer (1994), O'Shaughnessy (2008), and others, Monieson appreciated the contribution that a variety of paradigms including natural science (whose knowledge-constituting interest was, for Habermas (1987Habermas ( /2004) concerned with 'controlling' nature, as well as human beings, whilst spuriously adopting a posture of value neutrality), hermeneutics (concerned with the development of inter-subjective understanding about the past and present, but which is essentially 'conservative' in Habermas' (1987Habermas' ( /2004Habermas' ( , 1990 opinion) and critical approaches can make to the emancipation and self-reflection of the subject (Crossley, 2005;Habermas, (1987Habermas, ( /2004 ;Hansen, 1981;Ingebrigtsen & Pettersson, 1981;Monieson, 1988Monieson, , 1989Peter, 1991). We must acknowledge the value of multiple paradigms, as well as interdisciplinarity, these scholars claimed (Firat, 1987;cf.…”