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by roflc0ptic 2379 days ago
Sociology is way more rigorous than you’re making it out to be. Studying people is hard, but it’s making good faith effort in that direction, reproducibility crisis notwithstanding.

Take the “Sokal 2.0” affair, where some profs sent obviously bogus research to various journals. Notably, while they were able to get “rape culture among dogs at the dog park” (or maybe it was racism, easy to look up) published in a gender studies journal, they couldn’t get published in sociology journals. Sociology has standards. The absurdities committed by gender studies as an institution don’t falsify racism/other forms of oppression. They might be wrong, but you’re certainly not right.

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>Sociology has standards.

Mostly political and much of it unreproducible. Desperate political academics using non science to argue their opinions and right and citing each other into fake legitimacy.

Garbage studies garbage standards garbage journals from people who couldn't hack it elsewhere.