DocZinn said:
True, which is why it does matter that the overwhelming majority of professors in the social sciences (where things are more subjective) are leftists.
Again, we don't disagree.
I'm not so sure that calling themselves 'social sciences' instead of sociologists is an accurate choice of words. (The 'science of societies' becomes far more subjective and less accessable by the empirical methods of science than do physics, chemistry, biology, astronony & cosmology.)
But can we agree that departments of sociology do not define the political nature of a college or university (or at least, should not be the metric by which we judge it).
We should recognize that a university is not a sociology department. Instead, a university has many departments: physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, art, music, political science, psychology, economics, planning & public policy, etc, etc, all of which, I strongly assert, are less likely to be left leaning than the sociology department (says a person who was a sociology minor as an undergrad in the late 60's).
Those other departments are far more likely to reflect a political cross section of the nation as a whole. (And if one objects to that, then I have no empathy.)
And again I'll assert that regardless of the political make up of those departments in toto - right, left or middle - a student without critical thinking skills embarking there is in danger of indoctrination.
Nem
Do they also censor your written letters?
