The Trouble with the Sociology of Pop

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Sociology as I know it stopped 'aspiring to be a science' in the 50s.

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― and what, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Sociology as I know it stopped 'aspiring to be a science' in the 50s. Outposts of naive positivism do remain (primarily American undergraduate textbooks, in my experience). And c'mon, the discipline boasts no greater proportion of badly written or ill-reasoned work than any other. The world's full of crap reasoning and bad writing. I could provide a list of sociological work *full* of a sense of the 'how and why' of its subject matter, which you could all rigorously ignore in favour of a 2-dimensional caricature of the discipline. (It would probably start with MArx and Engels, except that their aspirations to scientific status would be embarrassing).

Ellie (Ellie) on Friday, 6 September 2002 06:30 (4 years ago)

but it was a quasi-scientific marxism that launched the major attack on 'naive positivism' in the first place...

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I opened this thread expecting to be embarrassed by my post from four years ago, but I'm still interested in some of the things I said.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

derrida was an anti-positivist not because he thought it was faulty but because he thought it would lead to fascism!

― and what, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

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