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I think comparing sociology to fiat money is accurate. Fiat money exists because of compulsory monopoly of the mint, Sociology(or most of it anyway) exists because of state monopoly over intellectuals.
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What do you think of the field of sociology? Are they worth getting into? I took a class in sociology and I didn't learn much. For one it felt like Marxist indoctrination and the topics that were not politically charged didn't seem to be based on any solid theoretical grounding. My sociology...
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[quote user="I. Ryan"] [quote user="AJ"] I don't think the other fields have been developed much yet. Anything that can be studied in terms of human action can in theory be a field of praxeology. I have seen psychological action and ethical action be referred to as possible fields...
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has much work been done in the field of sociology from a libertarian or quasi libertarian perspective? I know of robert nisbet- though he was a conservative and also charles murray -though he's hardly a consistent libertarian by any stretch.theres hoppe too -he's done a talk comparing different...
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For a while now my mind has been wondering into the delicate but dangerous field of social theory. But like with most complaints leveled against mainstream economics by Austrian economists, sociology is such a wide and expansive field, and what it aims to cover--the study of groups, whether small, interpersonal...