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
I think you're basically right, though - sociologists tend to be politically committed, and their output is fundamentally influenced by that fact. Less true in psychology (I suspect).
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Have a look at the twitter feeds of the most vocal psychologists and you'll see plenty of evidence of right wing political beliefs. A social science methodology that doesn't question societal inputs is by definition conservative, maybe why they are attracted to the discipline
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But the focus of psychology tends to be the individual, and often not in a social context, so of course it's less likely to be concerned with social transformation!
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