xkcd Redux
July 18th, 2008 |So apparently, xkcd doesn’t consider sociology to be the bottom of the barrel. That spot is reserved for literary criticism.
I’m not entirely sure how the sociologically uninitiated might be able to last four minutes without his or her lack of training exposed. I can think of a number of slips that would be an instant betrayal.
“I agree with Parsons that…”
“Blind reviewers are freaking awesome.”
“What does Karl Marx have to do with sociology?”
“My department and I are totally not having any funding problems at all whatsoever.”
Or, my personal favorite:
“I disagree with your macro-level social structural theory. Because, you see, my wife’s friend’s boss…”
(You know how in movies, the villain will sometimes have a button he can push that will open up a trap door, so a misguided opponent or truant subordinate can fall to his or her death? When I’m a professor, I’d like to have trap doors beneath every student’s desk. And a red button marked “Ecological Fallacy.” So as soon as a student attempts to refute a sociological argument based on an individual personal experience, I can push the button and make the student fall into a pool of sharks with lasers attached to their heads. I defy anyone to explain how this would not produce positive educational change.)
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