I've been half aware that it's hard to find "non-PC" sociology research and was wondering whether I'm imagining that the stuff I'm reading is all incredibly one sided. Or is it simply fact that left-wing, liberal ideas have the majority of empirical support?
I consider myself to be left leaning and liberal so I'm not coming at this from a prejudiced slant - I hope.
But for some time it's been hard to discuss some of the more sensitive ideas of our modern society - equality, sexual preference, race, immigration and so on - without running the risk of being called an 'ist' of some kind. It happens here frequently.
Well it seems that there is support for my feelings in a paper that shows that sociology research is overwhelmingly left, liberal and that other ides are being either ignored or pilloried. Careers are being ruined or not even commencing because of having more conservative sounding or countercultural ideas.
In the last few years, social psychology has faced a series of challenges to the validity of its research, including a few high-profile replication failures, a handful of fraud cases, and several articles on questionable research practices and inflated effect sizes In this article, we suggest that one largely overlooked cause of failure is a lack of political diversity. We review evidence suggesting that political diversity and dissent would improve the reliability and validity of social psychological science
We focus on conservatives as an underrepresented group because the data on the prevalence in psychology of different ideological groups is best for the liberal-conservative contrast — and the departure from the proportion of liberals and conservatives in the U.S. population is so dramatic. However, we argue that the field needs more non-liberals however they specifically self-identify (e.g., libertarian, moderate)
The lack of political diversity is not a threat to the validity of specific studies in many and perhaps most areas of research in social psychology. The lack of diversity causes problems for the scientific process primarily in areas related to the political concerns of the Left — areas such as race, gender, stereotyping, environmentalism, power, and inequality — as well as in areas where conservatives themselves are studied, such as in moral and political psychology.
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