You're right. On the other hand, I respect the efforts of those who try to make a difference (for example by taking the effort to replicate prominent studies in

You're right. On the other hand, I respect the efforts of those who try to make a difference (for example by taking the effort to replicate prominent studies in psychology). Sociology and economics are different beasts altogether. By definition, you can't conduct any meaningul controlled study, so using the name of "science" is a bit of a stretch. Nevertheless, you can't deny that certain "laws", however fuzzy they be, do exist in these fields, and studying them can be very useful, no matter if we call these science or not.