Great piece on the damage done by postmodernism from one of my favourites, @HPluckrosehttps://areomagazine.com/2017/03/27/how-french-intellectuals-ruined-the-west-postmodernism-and-its-impact-explained/ …
Yes. Its very difficult now to say that the dominant beliefs of some cultures are true & some are not.
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Epistemic relat. not what I associate with Soc top journals. Without empirical analysis difficult to rebut.
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Last time I went to sociology conference, it was claimed a study showing breast-feeding to be benficial..
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..must be false because otherwise there'd be pressure on women to breastfeed.
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I've even seen a literature claiming men can and should also breastfeed, else gender binary.
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Christakis, I am confused - do you honestly believe this is a fair assessment of the state of sociology?
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it's hard to quantify. But I do think we can do better.
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I am honestly baffled, but fair enough. I find it easy not to accept claim, given lack of evidence presented
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I'm baffled that you have not spotted postmodernism in the social sciences. They're not denying it.
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I recommend the Detmer book I mentioned for some additional examples. Also Sokal & Bricmont have a few
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