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		<title>By: Tige Gibson</title>
		<link>http://nasblog.org/2010/01/12/response-to-progressive-scholar/#comment-806</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 09:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not a sociologist, but I do know that these ideas have factual basis and are not &quot;liberal bias&quot;. White males are over-represented in dominant positions at least because being dominant is inherent to masculinity.

Women make &quot;safer&quot; choices in the workplace because historically they have had it tougher than men, so they are less likely to lose their job but also less likely to advance. If the penalties all told for women were the same as the penalties for men, then statistics for women would be the same as for men. This is what actual studies show and isn&#039;t made up &quot;academic&quot; nonsense.

Behavior of black people is strongly influenced by their continuing marginalization and would likely continue for generations even if it were possible to eliminate racism because you don&#039;t just get over internalization. The whole &quot;pimp&quot;/&quot;drug dealer&quot;/&quot;hip hop artist&quot; culture is an easy escape route for the vast numbers of poor blacks. The market for that sort of &quot;black culture&quot; product is predominantly white people.

But what exactly is a sociologist supposed to do about any of this? Hence, I am not a sociologist, but at least I&#039;ve made the effort to find out the underlying truth.

People who think &quot;liberals&quot; are biased should get some actual education instead of wasting time complaining. Write whatever you want in your course, fail if necessary, it&#039;s not very likely you will, but at least learn something for yourself. Quit your pointless &quot;liberal bias&quot; whining.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am not a sociologist, but I do know that these ideas have factual basis and are not &#8220;liberal bias&#8221;. White males are over-represented in dominant positions at least because being dominant is inherent to masculinity.</p>
<p>Women make &#8220;safer&#8221; choices in the workplace because historically they have had it tougher than men, so they are less likely to lose their job but also less likely to advance. If the penalties all told for women were the same as the penalties for men, then statistics for women would be the same as for men. This is what actual studies show and isn&#8217;t made up &#8220;academic&#8221; nonsense.</p>
<p>Behavior of black people is strongly influenced by their continuing marginalization and would likely continue for generations even if it were possible to eliminate racism because you don&#8217;t just get over internalization. The whole &#8220;pimp&#8221;/&#8221;drug dealer&#8221;/&#8221;hip hop artist&#8221; culture is an easy escape route for the vast numbers of poor blacks. The market for that sort of &#8220;black culture&#8221; product is predominantly white people.</p>
<p>But what exactly is a sociologist supposed to do about any of this? Hence, I am not a sociologist, but at least I&#8217;ve made the effort to find out the underlying truth.</p>
<p>People who think &#8220;liberals&#8221; are biased should get some actual education instead of wasting time complaining. Write whatever you want in your course, fail if necessary, it&#8217;s not very likely you will, but at least learn something for yourself. Quit your pointless &#8220;liberal bias&#8221; whining.</p>
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		<title>By: cb</title>
		<link>http://nasblog.org/2010/01/12/response-to-progressive-scholar/#comment-402</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While it is indeed unfair to condemn the entire discipline of sociology, I think the original post makes a reasonable point. The dogmatic views expressed in the catechism dressed up as an exam are, unfortunately, pervasive in the discipline today, although they are not held by every sociologist. Political sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz has argued, in The Decomposition of Sociology, that sociology as ideology has seriously undermined sociology as social science over the past thirty to forty years.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While it is indeed unfair to condemn the entire discipline of sociology, I think the original post makes a reasonable point. The dogmatic views expressed in the catechism dressed up as an exam are, unfortunately, pervasive in the discipline today, although they are not held by every sociologist. Political sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz has argued, in The Decomposition of Sociology, that sociology as ideology has seriously undermined sociology as social science over the past thirty to forty years.</p>
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		<title>By: progressivescholar</title>
		<link>http://nasblog.org/2010/01/12/response-to-progressive-scholar/#comment-393</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for your response!  You make several salient points.  I think it&#039;s important to remember that this was one exam in a course, and just because the topics you mentioned were not discussed on this particular exam, they could have been addressed on other exams.  We have no way of knowing.  Nor do we know what other Intro to Sociology courses in other universities are teaching. 

Blanket statements like &quot;Sociology is anti-America&quot; and &quot;the entire discipline is corrupt&quot; are unfounded (not to mention transparently one-sided) because you&#039;re basing these assumptions on one exam written by one instructor from one course at one university.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for your response!  You make several salient points.  I think it&#8217;s important to remember that this was one exam in a course, and just because the topics you mentioned were not discussed on this particular exam, they could have been addressed on other exams.  We have no way of knowing.  Nor do we know what other Intro to Sociology courses in other universities are teaching. </p>
<p>Blanket statements like &#8220;Sociology is anti-America&#8221; and &#8220;the entire discipline is corrupt&#8221; are unfounded (not to mention transparently one-sided) because you&#8217;re basing these assumptions on one exam written by one instructor from one course at one university.</p>
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