Sociology is the sorry failure of the pretense of the attempt to find analytical solutions over interactions of large numbers of individuals
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It does sound suspiciously romantic, but irreducible complexity is a thing. Probably not in all relevant social domains, though.
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one theory I have for this is that sociology's subjects *know* about theories about them, you can't really theorize in peace
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Which percentage of which part of the population has to care about the difference betw Luhmann and Bourdieux before civilization collapses?
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more prosaic theories, e.g. economists tend to be closer to homo oeconomicus (iirc)
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