Many once-respected academic disciplines have been taken over by leftist zealots who now use them to push their beliefs. Among them is sociology.
In today’s Martin Center article, one of the remaining non-woke sociologists, Bucknell professor Alexander Riley, looks on this state of affairs with dismay.
He writes:
The discipline is now dominated by one intellectual framework, which I call Contemporary Critical Sociology, or CCS. From that perspective, all human social organization must be understood based on invisible but inescapable structural relations of domination among social groups, which are always divided into two categories: the dominant/advantaged/privileged and the dominated/disadvantaged/unprivileged.
If you don’t buy into that, you’re a pariah. No other analyses are allowed. Rather than a search for understanding, sociology is part of a political agenda.
Riley continues:
Inequality, for example, has long been a topic of concern for the discipline, but, in CCS, the only way one can discuss it is through the moralizing lens of radical egalitarianism. That is, for contemporary sociology, inequality is always and everywhere evidence of a social injustice, some malevolent effort on the part of wicked entities to illegitimately hold others down.
Sociology could return to academic respectability, but that would mean abandoning its current ideological framework.