The assigned reading I have for one of my classes tomorrow is reminding me of my love-hate relationship with sociology.
On the one hand, I think a lot of the research done in it is important and fascinating, and that the study of social phenomenon is worthwhile.
On the other hand, there's a certain style of writing and lexicon that it popular in sociology that serves only to make pretty simple claims sound more profound and obscure than they are.
Currently pushing my head through a paper that's pretty much pages and pages of verbiage and academic buzzwords just to say "racism often happens through certain races being excluded from or having their behaviour regulated in certain spaces." Honestly. I've summed up the entire paper so far in one sentence, and I don't exactly have a reputation for being concise myself. More talented people could probably distill it in three words.
And yet I have nineteen more pages to read of this.
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