True throughout the social psychological sciences. Personality constructs, for instance, are literally a distillation of folk-lexical descriptors via factor analysis—then reified as core dimensions of psych and behavioral variation (eg big 5).
Alas, so very true... Hence confused theories of 'religion' or 'power'. Social sciences are often trapped into taking our folk-sociology at face-value, instead of explaining it. Seeing cultures in cognitive and evolutionary terms should help...https://twitter.com/tscottphillips/status/1096035005392920576 …
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It's the same in philosophy - cf the obsession with defining vague folk concepts like "knowledge", instead of dropping them for more functional technical terms
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any suggested sources to learn more about folk sociology, folk economics and folk psychology?
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