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Posted on 02/13/2026 12:44:55 PM PST by karpov
Anyone who pays the slightest bit of attention to academic sociology these days knows there are serious problems. I have been writing about this phenomenon now for a number of years, pointing out, e.g., sociology’s drift from its origins and how its journals and conferences clearly illustrate its biases. The discipline has become captured by an ideology and has given up on its earlier scientific promise.
A glance at the titles of conference papers and journal articles, or indeed at the course offerings in sociology at any institution of higher learning, reveals the transformation. Even some Marxist professors have come to recognize how skewed the discipline of sociology has become.
For example, Professor Joshua Murray of Vanderbilt University has written, “At present, sociology is organized around the assumption that social forces are the primary, and often exclusive drivers of social outcomes. […] If one asks what the dominant conclusions of a given [sociological] subfield are, the answer is almost always that the phenomenon in question is socially constructed, shaped by power relations, and maintained through inequality.”
The discipline is now dominated by one intellectual framework, which I call Contemporary Critical Sociology, or CCS. From that perspective, all human social organization must be understood based on invisible but inescapable structural relations of domination among social groups, which are always divided into two categories: the dominant/advantaged/privileged and the dominated/disadvantaged/unprivileged.
We might take the example of racial groups and identities as an illustration. CCS produces a great deal of “research” on these topics, and the framework of understanding always begins with assertions that race is fundamentally an axis of dominance and repression, with some groups operating as oppressors and others as hapless victims.
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No.
no.
One theory makes the final exam easy.
No. Too many evil people have been allowed to immigrate and can not be reached with the truth.
“has given up on its earlier scientific promise”
i took a soash course in 1973 as part of the electives outside of the hard sciences necessary for a BS in engineering ...
i can personally attest that sociology has NEVER had a “scientific promise” ...
Impossible. This is where the young people with brains of mush learn all the wonders of socialism!!!
Octopi are the future
No.
Social Sciences have been a mess since the 1910s.
A degree based on opinions of idiots take on society...why?
Sociology is the worst of the social sciences. At least in psychology or economics, there still are some using scientific methods and statistics to create general "laws" that would be true independent of ideology.
Sociology is effectively a post-modern religion, and depends solely on one's own individual view of what "ultimate truth" and "good" are. Of course, in the 20th century, it was therefore easiest for marxists to capture.
In its present form, its now not just utterly useless, its wasteful and even dangerous to society overall.
I knew one. Impossible person.
And…an honest to God Rothchild.
Sociology is a fraudulent pseudo-science.
The concept of “social science” was always insane.
The reason is straightforward.
Scientific experiments require identical initial conditions and repetition to establish proof.
There are never exactly identical initial conditions in anything affecting human beings or societies.
This is the correct answer.
Anyone using the principles of sociology will destroy any area he influences. It is pure garbage without one scientifically repeatable experiment in all of its literature. What is repeatable is the destruction of any area it’s principles contaminate. Destruction is its only legacy.
Scientific experiments also require the ability isolate or negate variables. In the case of people subject to profound differences in chemistries such as hormones, such is impossible. Further, the consequences of modulating an input can require generations to manifest or determine if they can at all be temporally isolated.
Psychology is reasonably predictable, but like three bodies of gravity, Sociology is not predictable. Much of herd mentality can be triggered, but outcomes are hard to predict.
And now for something completely different. A sociological documentary.
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