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am_Unition  ·  1993 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Large Majorities Dislike Political Correctness - The Atlantic

    I mean, sociology is rapidly attempting to become a parody of itself but this paper is a catastrophe.

I only shared this in the hopes of getting Hubski to discuss it. Checked out the author's bio page, and found this other recent Atlantic article, What an Audacious Hoax Reveals About Academia:

    The sheer craziness of the papers the authors concocted makes this fact all the more shocking. One of their papers reads like a straightforward riff on the Sokal Hoax. Dismissing “western astronomy” as sexist and imperialist, it makes a case for physics departments to study feminist astrology—or practice interpretative dance—instead...

I did lol. It gets even funnier, actually.

Edit: I want to explicitly state that sociology is absolutely a discipline worth funding, but I would like to see a pronounced change in the culture and methodologies.





user-inactivated  ·  1993 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Edit: I want to explicitly state that sociology is absolutely a discipline worth funding, but I would like to see a pronounced change in the culture and methodologies.

It wasn't sociologists who fell for it:

    As a number of academics pointed out on Twitter, for example, all of the papers submitted to sociology journals were rejected. For now, it remains unlikely that the American Sociological Review or the American Political Science Review would have fallen for anything resembling “Our Struggle Is My Struggle,” a paper modeled on the infamous book with a similar title.
am_Unition  ·  1992 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, the most radical corner of sociology, I guess. Not indicative of the whole, you're correct.

Quatrarius  ·  1992 days ago  ·  link  ·  

turns out if you only pay attention to the silly corners it makes it look silly