3/ Before someone hops in my mentions to point out the latter is engineering (ish) and therefore tested and the former is not -- nope. Social theory is tested in a variety of ways. But, the explanandum implicitly denies a lot of your favorite methods.
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And ignoring that, putting up some ngram stats is a pretty funny way to show "it was made up 20 minutes ago." For example, Boltzmann machines have antecedents in statistical mechanics, it's just a name given to a very specific (and useful!) configuration.
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Same goes for things like "white privilege." The usefulness of the term in describing things depends on context. It's not something I study, but I don't think you'd apply it to, say, the Jim Crow South -- those race-based differences weren't latent.
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But, you would use it to describe observable differences in outcomes (and consequent trajectories) when conditioning by race in the modern day United States, because the effects have systemic causes which are at best partially-observable given careful analysis.
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TLDR E.G: "White Privilege" : Social :: "HIV" : Biologicalpic.twitter.com/Sdjj5N5K9g
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