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Roberto Unger: Sociology is Bunk

Posted on 1 May 2014 by Nicholas

Interview, just one of many, with Roberto Unger, which indicates that sociology — along with all the other social sciences (psychology, economics, law, and perhaps even political science) — is bunk as well as pseudo science.

14 thoughts on “Roberto Unger: Sociology is Bunk”

Jan on 18 November 2014 at 12:52 said:

Indeed. A “closed world” (Edwards) of sociological thinking…not such a bad idea, it seems…

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Nicholas on 18 November 2014 at 12:36 said:

Mutually assured disciplinary destruction — I like it! Very Cold War

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Jan on 18 November 2014 at 10:16 said:

Maybe us and the quants need to embrace the idea that we are in a strategic alliance: without us, they would be those with the dubious correlations, without them we would the story-tellers…

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Nicholas on 17 November 2014 at 16:59 said:

day-mare?

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Installing (Social) Order wrote:

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Jan on 17 November 2014 at 16:36 said:

Indeed. Not so sure if that would be a dream or a nightmare, but that would definitely make sense…

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Nicholas on 17 November 2014 at 14:54 said:

I think such a “dream” will ultimately split sociology in two — one half will cling to “social physics” and the other will embrace “the void”

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Installing (Social) Order wrote:

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Jan on 17 November 2014 at 14:37 said:

Ahahahahah. Yeah. I sometimes dream about a world in which sociology is no longer a science (in the sense of this desperate attempt of abstraction)

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Nicholas on 1 May 2014 at 13:27 said:

or the erection of totems on the shores of Easter Island

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dmfant on 1 May 2014 at 13:19 said:

once one starts to come to terms with all of the pomo concerns about complexity/emergence/assemblages/environs/etc attempts to structure/rule social interactions into abstractions/laws/norms gets a bit like watching a bad puppet-show, no?

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Nicholas on 1 May 2014 at 13:06 said:

Saw Simmons speak once about the “crisis” — important information about “business as usual”

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Nicholas on 1 May 2014 at 13:04 said:

p-value fishing is a dangerous sport

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dmfant on 1 May 2014 at 12:47 said:

http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/18167

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dmfant on 1 May 2014 at 12:47 said:

since we (some of us earlier than others) came to realize the limits (to date) of statistical analyses.
http://www.nature.com/news/scientific-method-statistical-errors-1.14700

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Nicholas on 1 May 2014 at 12:15 said:

Reblogged this on Undergraduate Research Blog and commented:
Wait, sociology is bunk? Since when?

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