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'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.
Well, I suspect the phenomenon is much less prevalent among psychologists. But not just sociology - also its offshoots.
