Sociology finished in 3 words.

19Jan08

From a Liberating Minds discussion on “Sociology: What’s it Good For?“
Response and Intro: Some of you may get this. Others will see it as ludicrous. I don’t care!

Let me debunk sociology in three words:

Groups don’t exist.

I’ll be signing autographs after the lecture. Thanks you very much…

I think I first really realized this with the advent of chaos theory’s popularization in the 90’s. Someone tried to figure out how and why geese flew in ‘V’s (geese are voluntarists Niels ). It turns out that the individual geese only needed 2 rules in order for such groups to form and maintain structure.

A sociologist would still be trying to figure out what the group ‘wanted’.

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