For your consideration...

[madscience.livejournal.com]

Behold, the Poe-ing of queer theory:



Edit: should I restore deleted comments?

Comments

[madscience.livejournal.com]

Because sociology in general, and feminism in particular, left its high water mark around 1980 and has been declining into unscientific incoherence ever since.

[farchivist.livejournal.com]

Your remarks are incorrect. So sociology's increasing reliance on numbers, math, formulae, and rigorous experimentation using the scientific method, all while dropping dogma and biased crap from last century, is "unscientific incoherence"? That's just plain nonsense. It sounds like you're talking about anthropology instead, which is all about dogma, personal experiences, and "intuitions".

I'd almost suspect you of wanting to go back to having humanist assumptions about social theory, instead of relying on numbers, but that would be illogical of you and you highly prize logic. Perhaps you might read more current things than what was published in the 80s and become conversant with computational sociology.

[madscience.livejournal.com]

"sociology's increasing reliance on numbers, math, formulae, and rigorous experimentation"

That's the exact opposite of what has occurred since 1980. The only sense in which sociology has increased its reliance on statistics is increasing its flagrantly dishonest use of statistics to make political points.

[farchivist.livejournal.com]

Oh really?
Please explain to me how social network analysis, one of the main techniques of sociology, is not scientifically rigorous.

[farchivist.livejournal.com]

On second thought, it sounds like you are confusing sociological theory with social theory. The former is science and the seat of sociology; the latter is philosophical and has very little to do with sociology today.