I took a Sociology course in my sophomore year in college, after I spent four years in the Navy.
I was already a conservative, and had been since my pre-teen days when I was watching the Nixon-Humphrey race at the age of 12. I had been all the way. around the world before I joined the Navy, and saw more of it when I joined.
My point is, looking back I feel I was less of an impressionable brain full of mush than many of my classmates may have been.
But I was was very attracted to the planning and order that Sociology seemed to offer. I found it fascinating and interesting, and it appealed to my innate admiration for an orderly implementation of a city plan. They had us read a book for the course called “Walden Two” by B.F. Skinner, and by the end of the book, some of the characters saw the endeavor for what it was and walked out of the story.
As did I. I re-read its again a few yers ago, and wondered why it had taken me so far into the book to see Sociology for what it was-a tyrannical Leftist construct. Social Engineering, and Leftists just love that.
The professor was a young guy and I kind of liked him, but he became extremely despondent and depressed when the class refused to participate.
Someone told me that, as part of a ruse to get the class involved, he came into class wearing skin-tight leather with two large dobermans on chains. I don’t know if it was true, but the person told it to me in a way that made me think it was. Very matter of factly.
One day, he came in and sat down at his desk, didn’t say anything and just sat there and looked at us without talking. It was very weird and awkward, and after about 20 minutes, he began to talk about how frustrated he was that we wouldn’t participate.
After class, I went up to talk to him and he was so discouraged and dejected I said to him “Have you ever thought about doing something else for a living?”