These themes of import include the social structure of society, role formation, human agency, discourse construction, knowledge or "sense-making," and social change. This conceptual approach offers great potential for appreciating postmodernism and its likely contributions to criminal and legal thought. Along the way, the author uses various justice-based illustrations to help ground the otherwise abstract and philosophical material. The paper concludes with speculation on the importance of theoretical synthesis in the study of modernist and postmodernist law, crime, and deviance. This supplemental commentary will extend and apply the previous analysis to an identifiable topic of criminal justice concern. Further, the analysis will provide a provisional, speculative backdrop from which to respond directly to the criticisms leveled against the postmodern perspective. 164 references