"Actual science" tends to move towards empiricism, not theory-building. See for example the evidence-based medicine movement, or effective altruism. Besides th

"Actual science" tends to move towards empiricism, not theory-building. See for example the evidence-based medicine movement, or effective altruism. Besides that–how is what you're proposing different from the status quo? Every social program ever was born from a theory, i. e. "education creates agency, and is therefore a better investment than direct money grants". It just happens to be a lot more difficult to run randomised experiments in sociology, because it is (by definition) the study of very large, interconnected systems. Societies just don't lend themselves to the sort of reductionism that gave us all the advances in physics and mathematics.