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When Jukka Savolainen wrote about it in the Wall Street Journal I couldn’t quite believe it, so I had to go look. Indeed, on the website of the American Sociological Association describing its 2024 annual meeting we have the official “theme” of the meeting
“..sociology as a form of liberatory praxis: an effort to not only understand structural inequities, but to intervene in socio-political struggles.”
“To intervene.” “Political struggles.”
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| American Sociological Association. My emphasis. |
For a long time, people have made fun of the “social sciences” including economics as pretend sciences. We have “physics envy,” they said, but will never really measure up. Well, a lot of social sciences are not pretending to be sciences anymore!
There is a lot of attention to the political conformity and censorship going on on campuses, but not enough I think to the similar problems of professional societies and journals. Professor Savolainen for example doesn’t feel particularly “included” these days.
Hopefully, the explosion into public consciousness over the last few weeks of just how rotten and politicized academia has become will make this sort of thing look pretty embarrassing by springtime.
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