Curious if you have particular exemplar posts from sociology.
Periodically I see people make the “I’d like to see you engaging with the mainstream literature” comment, but then, well, there’s a whole lot of mainstream literature and I’m not sure how to sift through it for the parts that are relevant to me. Do you actually have experience with the literature or just an assumption that there’s stuff there? (if you are familiar, I think it’d be great to have an orientation post giving an overview of it)
Moral Mazes is a book by a sociologist, but the topics in this theme just strike me as being basically sociological in nature. The study of social structures.
I’m not a sociologist, so no, I don’t have recommendations. But it’s very hard for me to imagine there’s nothing out there.
I guess my comment may have come off as a criticism or challenge, but that’s not what I intend. It’s just pointing out that sociology is the relevant field, and these posts are being written by folks who don’t have a strong background in those academic fields—although they may have canny personal insights from their own experience. It seems to me like the most tractable next step in terms of vetting is not to try and run new experiments, but to find out what kind of evidence already exists. Or to get some skin in the game and try it for oneself!
Again, that’s not a criticism or challenge—just my own thoughts after having spent a fair amount of time reading the posts you referenced here and reflecting on my experiences.
Curious if you have particular exemplar posts from sociology.
Periodically I see people make the “I’d like to see you engaging with the mainstream literature” comment, but then, well, there’s a whole lot of mainstream literature and I’m not sure how to sift through it for the parts that are relevant to me. Do you actually have experience with the literature or just an assumption that there’s stuff there? (if you are familiar, I think it’d be great to have an orientation post giving an overview of it)
Moral Mazes is a book by a sociologist, but the topics in this theme just strike me as being basically sociological in nature. The study of social structures.
I’m not a sociologist, so no, I don’t have recommendations. But it’s very hard for me to imagine there’s nothing out there.
I guess my comment may have come off as a criticism or challenge, but that’s not what I intend. It’s just pointing out that sociology is the relevant field, and these posts are being written by folks who don’t have a strong background in those academic fields—although they may have canny personal insights from their own experience. It seems to me like the most tractable next step in terms of vetting is not to try and run new experiments, but to find out what kind of evidence already exists. Or to get some skin in the game and try it for oneself!
Again, that’s not a criticism or challenge—just my own thoughts after having spent a fair amount of time reading the posts you referenced here and reflecting on my experiences.