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?
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Being an academic sociologist seems to be strongly anticorrelated with understanding social dynamics on a deep level. It usually starts with missing the simple insight that the social domain is a subdomain of the physical universe and not a moral narrative.
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chunksof The academic sociologists I've met & those I've read have, by and large, been reasonable, grounded, & interested in ethical concerns. I might easily be missing big chunks of the field who are idiots. (After all, there were a lot of idiots in my CS program too.)
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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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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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I disagree; I think that it is more likely that they become indoctrinated into ideologies (a view on what is right and wrong) rather than correct epistemology (criteria to determine true and false).
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