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Gender studies is not science so I’m not sure how that fits into the discourse. Not to mention that it’s not even that good an example to prove anything about
by GuiA 7y ago
Gender studies is not science so I’m not sure how that fits into the discourse.
Not to mention that it’s not even that good an example to prove anything about academia - it’s a minuscule subfield with little funding in comparison to any other academic discipline. None of the major public universities I attended even had a gender studies department - at best it was a specialty within sociology/anthropology with a dozen grad students or so. The only thing in which gender studies has a disproportionate representation is as the favorite example in the rhetoric of anti-academics.
Please show how physics/biology/math/geology/climate science/etc is “monothically leftist and activist in nature”.
- nostromo 7y agoGender studies is considered a social science in most universities. And professors of all majors are almost monolithically left-leaning, compared to the population. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/11/the-dramatic-shift-among-college-professors-thats-hurting-students-education/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/11/the-d...
- zajio1am 7y agoAren't gender studies generally considered humanities and not social sciences?
- umeshunni 7y ago"social science", "political science" etc are not science. They are liberal arts masquerading as science to claim legitimacy. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/is-social-science-an-oxymoron-will-that-ever-change/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/is-social-s...