From the 1960s forward, when the New Left started calling themselves “progressives,” sociology was subsumed into the Marxist agenda as an activist tool for social engineering. As one textbook defines sociology’s mission today, it is “to alleviate human suffering and make society a better place to live.”
This is political activism, not truth-seeking. Like many humanities’ disciplines — gender studies springs immediately to mind — sociology quickly became what high-ranking sociologist Stanislav Andreski called “a sloppy pseudo-science.” And pseudo-sciences are to pure intellectual inquiry as astrology is to astronomy.
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