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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maybe they do but the fact remains that what they want to see are changes in society for the reasons stated earlier wheraas psychology as a discipline appears to merely reinforce stereotypes and the status quo
Okay, that might be true (though it probably has a lot to do with the fact that psychology's focus is more narrow), but it doesn't say a lot for the status of sociology as a science if its driven by a desire to change society.
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ah but no socioologist I have ever met has thought it needs to be regarded as a science. In fact many argue that social sciences cannot be regrdded as scientific as the natural sciences and shouldn't aim to be. Which is another problem with psychology
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Are you British/Irish? Sociologists from the States are much more likely to think sociology is a science. Plus there are plenty of sociologists - and Marxists - who think it at least approaches that status (e.g., Durkheim; Poulantzas).
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