Although sociology proclaims itself as the queen of the social sciences, it has never graduated to the status of a fully scientific enterprise. The essential flaw of modern sociology is its failure to accept the limitations of social engineering dictated by the facts of human biology. We know beyond reasonable doubt that humanity is an evolved species whose nature is in significant part fixed. Yet contemporary sociology neglects or suppresses the growing body of information about human nature that is being uncovered by behavioral biology and its related fields.
On account of its vast biological ignorance the practice of sociology today is often as fanciful as the alchemy of the Middle Ages. Despite continuing controversy around the margins, it is now indisputable that humans have certain essentially immutable traits not changeable by short-term social interventions. Sociologists will continue their vain quest for social gold, usually communalistic or sexual utopias, until their methods and theories reflect these immutable aspects of human nature.
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