Fair enough. I feel like sociologists *should* already have the background & priming to see & understand wide-scale social impacts of technical decisions. Like, that's literally their coursework. Maybe they aren't primed to think about ethical impacts so much?
I have met a number of amazing people working in sociology. But unlike CS, social sciences do not seem to have a paradigm that weeds out utter crap.
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If sociology produced applicable insights, should governments and corporations not be lead by sociologists, the experts of raising to power and wielding it? There are even more computer scientists leading corporations than sociologists!
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I dunno. Sociologists tend to have a basic grasp of statistics, and a familiarity with history and philosophy. CS is treated like a direct pathway to the job market in many places, without even the emphasis on impact found in engineering programs.
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A 4-year CS program doesn't even reliably produce people who can code in one language. On the other hand, sociologists seem to come out of their degree having read enough Marx to grasp the link between economics and social structures.
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