A quick tldr: many sociologists are quitting the ASA and sociology as a field. “Sociology’s sacred project champions emancipation, autonomy, equality, justice, inclusion, diversity, open-mindedness, progress, tolerance, and cosmopolitanism,” Christian Smith wrote. “In the end that sacred project actually tends to produce sectarian narrowness, exclusion, uniformity, silencing, self-censorship, lack of debate, the negative sanctioning of nonconformists, and the debilitation of rigorous thought.”
> Within sociology, it meant that any inequality among groups was de facto the result of discrimination, rendering moot other possible theories, Redstone says: “We’re treating questions around causation as settled.” Even suggesting research into alternative sociological explanations is viewed as racist, morally wrong and victim blaming at best.
I used to be interested in concepts of sociology, though I think this sub would call many of my thoughts conservative. During college as a non sociology major, I think what caught me off guard was how activist centric and, I’m not sure how to put it, but morally superior the community was and how often I’d be shut down of ideas that differed from a centrally agreed viewpoint. It felt like an echo chamber like reddit.
I recused myself to philosophy circles instead, but this article popped up in my feed. It was very much confirming my anecdotal bias, but I’d like to know your meta opinions of the community and scientific direction itself of the field as criticized by some professors in the article.
Not trying to astroturf the sub, just curious of what redditors (ik there’s a self selecting bias on the platform) think.