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I was thinking that "disdain" might be overdramatic and too broad of a generalization - until I read the replies to this comment.

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kelseyfrog 3 days ago | parent [-]

Lol, I would have guessed you've been here long enough to experience it. :) It's probably not most folks, but when the topics of sociology and psychology come up there's definitely a contingent who reply with contempt.

This isn't a new concept, but the compartmentalization of subjects in school is one of the factors at play along with a hierarchy of subjects and students. You can observe how a lot of computer science folks hold mathematics and physics in high regard, and biologists, and sociologists in low regard. It's no coincidence that this maps to relative possession of the habitus valued by the ideological hegemony.

Again, it works to reinforce social statuses rather than dismantle them, often in ways that are detrimental to those actively, albeit unknowingly, contributing to the same systems.

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yesco a day ago | parent | next [-]

I'm confused about what you guys keep getting at here when you say vague stuff like "reinforcing social statuses". I hope it's not what I think it is.

My issues with the "soft" sciences, is chiefly their inability to replicate findings, and the paradoxical authority these so called scientists seem to gain despite not actually following the scientific method. It doesn't have to be this way either.

I'm not saying everything in these fields are total bunk or anything but I've been deceived by them enough by now that they have lost my trust. I'm sure there are plenty that actually do good science but I'm not capable of telling them apart from the rest unfortunately.

Even more concerning is this pretentious attitude reminiscent of what I'd expect from a religion or political movement than a field of science. Are we starting to treat universitys like cathedrals now? A scary thought.

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nobodywillobsrv 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The contempt is probably not the topic but the lack of empathy in the descriptions and language in the topic.

Qualitative precision matters. HN crowd presumably loves true social network academics.

Dark forest Vs real could probably be described by networks.

Also Social Media Networks are conversational markets, run by market makers with different kinds of incentives. I do not recall seeing descriptions like this but it would bring real empathy to the space to merely describe things like this.

Broadcast all is NOT the norm in price discovery. Why is it the starting point in social networks? We are brainwashed.

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Xymist 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The degree to which a science is valuable is proportional to the degree to which it would keep working if we finally wiped out humans and the goddamned whining stopped. Physics wouldn't notice, sociology would become irrelevant.

	▲	dragonwriter 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		“Valuable” only makes any sense when qualified with to whom, and your claim is clearly not true with any human or set of humans in that role.
	▲	etrautmann 3 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		So all of medicine isn’t science? What a weird take
	▲	kbrkbr 3 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Valuable for whom? No rational being left then.
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