Posted on 07/11/2024 4:00:36 AM PDT by karpov
An empirical study of what is being taught and learned in university sociology courses around the country would be challenging to carry out. But American sociology provides a convenient site for observing how the discipline is taught in the form of a research journal produced by the American Sociological Association (ASA).
Teaching Sociology has existed since 1973 and advertises itself on the ASA website as “advanc[ing] the quality of sociology instruction.” I admit having never looked at it during the entirety of my quarter-century in the discipline until writing this essay. I came to graduate school under the influence of a pre-1960s generation of social scientists, and I shared their belief that rigorous scientific study of human behavior and social organization was possible. I learned early in my career that sociology is in intellectual decline. My walk-through of Teaching Sociology offers bitter evidence of just how great the distance is between the early scientific promise of sociology and what is taught to students in sociology courses today.
The teaching of sociology is understood by the journal as straightforwardly political, in a univocal ideological vein. “Social justice,” “mindfulness,” “a compassionate orientation,” “an emancipatory project,” “a trauma-informed and survivor-centered pedagogy,” and “a radical critique of society for the purpose of reducing inequality” are among the descriptives commonly encountered in this literature.
One representative article (“Help Me See the ‘Magnificent’ Side of Sociology: The Outcomes of a Community Action and Involvement Course Designed to Help Undergraduates View Themselves as Agentic”) affirmatively cites a student’s account of a typical sociology class in this way: “We have spent this whole course seeing how bad things are in the world. […] I do not like the way society is, but I do not know how to change it.”
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When I took it in college, it turned into a therapy class for white girls
One of the many lines of study that needs to be DEFUNDED by the feds, with bank risking their OWN MONEY if they choose to give out loans for this crap.
Years ago I took a Sociology class. The professor was obsessed with domestic violence. That was really the only topic we covered. Men beating on women. Not cool, man. I brought in a NYT article saying that the majority of domestic violence was, in fact, women beating on men. The professor’s response: “They deserved it”.
I took a sociology of the family class in college. I’d been married 12 years at the time with two daughters. The so called professor was white and unmarried.... I’m guessing a lesbian. What she was pushing was wrong on a lot of counts and I argued with her and said I had 12 years experience on her, a family and the course was basically BS and nothing more than one persons bad opinion.
Has that professor transitioned yet?
So the role of government in a free society (John Locke vs Thomas Hobbes) is no longer taught?
That explains a lot.
The lunatics and cannibals have taken over all the institutions. Modern society is ruled by naïve woke induced children, depraved homosexuals and troglodyte savages. A democrat trifecta. /spit
I studied under America’s last great sociologist, James S. Coleman. He passed away in 1995. He was a Republican who successfully challenged several great leftist social myths. Read any of his works for a lesson in what sociology ought to be. For example, look up “Coleman Report”.
BTTT
yup
i always wondered how my History class changed to my
Social Studies class about that time.
and history class was made as frustrating , uninformative, confused , disjointed as possible.
and the only thing i remember from
it is
ROBBER BARRONS were a threat to
OUR DEMOCRACY..
..
no wonder i loathe academia
spit. .
Small “L”, small “R” libertarian republican.
Retired university professor.
Applied critical thinking
to undermine mushy socialist mentality of students.
Got marginalized in my department.
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“I shared their belief that rigorous scientific study of human behavior and social organization was possible.”
That is called scientism—and it has turned into an insane cult these days.
Quantum physics proved there is no such thing as an “objective” observer.
“Social sciences” never got the message.
It turns out that every human venture (including the academy) is full of conflict of interest, self-dealing, identity of interest and a lot of just plain fraud.
I too remember the sudden change from history to “social studies”. I thought it odd even then as a child. It makes sense since I learned about the agenda of the left.
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