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So I'm having a bit of an up and down week. Up: the application for graduation has been pushed back, giving me time to see the impossible-to-find adviser and convince him to sign my papers. Down: Emotional instability and my therapist canceling my appointment next week. (My first visit was a month ago. My second has been rescheduled for the end of
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So. Sociology in fiction. And I thought it was just botanists who were pretty universally loathed. I think sociologists are portrayed as creating dystopias in large part because they can be. It's hard to make a believable villain out of a philologist (or a botanist, for that matter) because what they study doesn't really matter to anybody else. On the other hand, it's pretty easy to make a believable villain out of a sociologist, because society is important to everybody.
There's also the fact that sociology is just inherently scary. You want to study me? I can't be studied! I don't fit into your patterns! Don't you dare tell me that you know both how I behave and why! Sociology is scary. So, you can either make it safe by devaluing it as a totally phony science, or explore the scariness, bringing it to its logical (or illogical) conclusion. The reason, say, anthropologists don't get this treatment is because ( ... )
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