The "idea of study," as you put it, is exactly what's left out of the equation. Bias is, of course, inevitable. But it makes it sound as if a sociologist stud

The "idea of study," as you put it, is exactly what's left out of the equation. Bias is, of course, inevitable. But it makes it sound as if a sociologist studying poverty consults their "worldview" and then writes an article. That's not the way anyone does research about anything. If someone who considers themselves a "citizen of the world" (a very old idea in Western culture, going back to the Stoics) cannot understand why anyone would hold a different opinion, they probably shouldn't be in academia. This article makes it sound like unless you're a patriot, you cannot understand patriotism; unless you're poor, you can't understand poverty; if you're educated yourself, you cannot evaluate whether education is effective. If that's the case, then academics aren't "out of touch." They're incompetent. Or else very basic ideas about epistemology are wrong.