Many "progressive" social science types are committed to the belief that it's possible to "fix" inequality of outcome. Pinker's rejection of "blank slatism" threatens that belief. That's a big reason he's disliked.
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I'm not, and am yet to meet, a progressive who believes in the equality of outcome so often portrayed, unless it means "the room to achieve the life that one wishes to achieve." I count as a Social Science type. Undertaking Master's in Psychological Research Methods at Birkbeck
Well you obviously haven't met many sociologists (I'm a Sociology PhD).
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well that is even a misunderstanding of left wing sociologists. Those who believe it is possible to create equality of outcome want to see changes in society where everyone is treated as of equal worth
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Are you a sociologist? My experience is that left-wing sociologists aim to explain all inequality in outcome in terms of social forces.
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I've met a few. What constitutes "many"? Maybe, however, this indicates that rather than "social science types" your issue is with sociologists. I wonder, also, if Pinker's targets, and the source of the ire towards Pinker, is almost exclusively American.
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Well, I suspect the phenomenon is much less prevalent among psychologists. But not just sociology - also its offshoots.
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