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so fun to read academic articles and see just how petty the authors are - i feel like academic writing gets a bad rep for being boring (which it often is) but it can also be so fun to see academics tearing each other to pieces in a sophisticated way - this came up bc i have to write a paper on the differences between sociology and history (or if i don't think there are any) and sociologist straight up said that historians don't know anything about history
Oct 16, 2024

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omg i did my thesis on a thing in queer history and trying to combine soc and history (soc and gender studies student) was PAINSTAKING. sociology has a very well-established set of methods and standards for research while history as a field basically doesn’t have methods which makes them very difficult to combine 🥴 there’s a lot of good writing as well about historical sociology versus history
Oct 16, 2024
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and like you said the critiques between the teo are SO CRAZY and bold 😭😭
Oct 16, 2024
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