Tom Lehrer on Sociology

Tom Lehrer performing a song on sociology.

Open Source video from http://www.archive.org/details/lehrer

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Comedy

Tags:

• Tom
• Lehrer
• Sociology
• Satire

[Obsessedwithtophats]

Who here would love to have had Tom Lehrer as their Professor?

[broadjumper1]

sreba68 & panjawel2 are both insufferably boorish douchebags..

[5610winston]

Thank you, Tom! They can toss numbers and equations and jargon around all they want, but it will never be science.

[JimBowie1133]

Social Sciences have a qualitative aspect and a quantitative aspect. Due to subject matter they can not be approached in the same exact way as the physical sciences. They limit their use when they try to mimic they physical sciences and this has been a hindrance to their progression and usefulness. We are in a state of economic crisis, war, crime, family dysfunction, mental and psychological dysfunction - These problems that face us are in the realm of social sciences.

[mortemdei]

@sreba68 don't waste your time, hatters gonna hate. Social sciences are sciences, let them be.

[panjawel2]

@broadjumper1

Maybe, but hey, at least we're not retarded christians.

[sreba68]

@broadjumper1

Cheers fanny-balls.

[sreba68]

@panjawel2

Parsons? Really - do you know how few sociologists would claim to subscribe to Parsons? Your same question could be put to physics where was it not within the last century that Newton was replaced by Einstein? Theories are replaced as understandings improve. I'd agree there is a lot of babbling as theory by those who don't do empirical work. You're mistaking such people though as representing sociology as a whole; all you're displaying is your ignorance of the field.

[sreba68]

@panjawel2

Can you use physics solely to explain the workings of my heart or even use quantum physics to explain neurological activity in the brain? No, and the suggestion of it is ludicrous. Sure further understandings of the working of the brain will have obvious implications for understanding sociological phenomena but such phenomena can't be reduced to neurological activity. Are you so stupid to claim to explain capitalist market economies by the firing of neurons?