Why Do Sociologists Lean Left — Really Left?
Organizations and Markets 44:1 Democrat/Republican leaning of sociology faculty members. The highest of any discipline. […] 10. Deborah Savage | 1 November 2008 at 6:45 pm Perhaps the answer to Peter’s question can be found in Adam Smith’s choice of title … an inquiry into the WEALTH of nations. Economics has followed a track that notes that there is too damned much poverty in the world, and we want to try to figure out how to make the world’s economies rich. Sociologists ended up studing how institutions keep people poor. Somehow that got translated into hating wealth and those that have it. Republican/Democrat affiliation is a a somewhat different matter, of course, and increasingly about litmus test questions. My 13-year-old son just expressed amazement that Lincoln was a Republican. After all, he seemed to stand for all kinds of things now associated with Democrats.
