In her book 'Liberal Parents, Radical Children" (1975) Decter used a method she called "fictionalized sociology" -- creating ideal types of bad people. In other words, "making up a guy to get mad at."pic.twitter.com/RQ2Exx9olZ
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In her book 'Liberal Parents, Radical Children" (1975) Decter used a method she called "fictionalized sociology" -- creating ideal types of bad people. In other words, "making up a guy to get mad at."pic.twitter.com/RQ2Exx9olZ
Me (stupid guy): Wait, you're just making up didactic & manipulative stories to describe people you hate. But these stories have neither the empathy of fiction nor the empirical grounding of journalism and scholarship. You (smart guy): Yes, I call it fictionalized sociology
This whole "fictionalized sociology" is a big thing on the right. You see it in David Brooks' work ("Bobos in Paradise") and Charles Murray's ("Coming Apart"). But Decter was a pioneer. She helped create "making up a guy to get mad at."
Didn't Plato invent that?
I loved those Archie comics too! #
"Fictionalized sociology" catering to conservative outrage is a pretty good description of works by Tom Wolfe like Radical Chic & Bonfire of the Vanities...which not coincidentally National Review conservatives loved
Yeah, he was the real master of the form.
So, basically she founded the Right wing industry of straw manufacturing...
This sounds closely related to what Robert Nozick called 'normative sociology'.
There were no straw men before 1975?
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