You see this sort of argument a lot, but it's just a bit bizarre. For various reasons...https://twitter.com/elizabday/status/690938241697058816 …
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the idea that the way sociologists tend to use a word - and there are tendencies - is the only reasonable use of a word is *nonsense*.
I don't know where it comes from, actually. A sociologist might have a highly esoteric concept of social class, for example, but surely...
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not even the most ideological of sociologists would think that no other use of the notion of social class should be permitted.
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3. The idea of institutional power, the notion of social structure, etc., all these things are far from straightforward & contested.
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This isn't new. Ethnomethodologists, for example, were criticizing such notions back in the 1960s. Generally, there are a whole bunch of
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philosophical problems to do with reification, emergent properties, reductionism, etc., that you've got to sort out before you can be
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confident in your pronouncements about institutional power. (Not the sort of thing easy to do unless you're trained in social theory.)
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Generally speaking, you should be deeply suspicious if people claim that there are established sociological truths. Sociology only very...
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rarely escapes the malign influence of ideology. I say all this as somebody with a PhD in sociology/social theory. Don't trust it.
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