{"id":5262,"date":"2007-12-26T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2007-12-26T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T10:33:00","slug":"dave-barry-on-sociology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/dave-barry-on-sociology\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Barry on Sociology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is so true:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For sheer lack of intelligibility, sociology is far and away the number one subject. I sat through hundreds of hours of sociology courses, and read gobs of sociology writing, and I never once heard or read a coherent statement. This is because sociologists want to be considered scientists, so they spend most of their time translating simple, obvious observations into scientific-sounding code. If you plan to major in sociology, you&#8217;ll have to learn to do the same thing. For example, suppose you have observed that children cry when they fall down. You should write: &#8220;Methodological observation of the sociometrical behavior tendencies of prematurated isolates indicates that a causal relationship exists between groundward tropism and lachrimatory, or &#8216;crying,&#8217; behavior forms.&#8221; If you can keep this up for fifty or sixty pages, you will get a large government grant.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xent.com\/FoRK-archive\/summer96\/0342.html\" title=\"Dave Barry on College\">&#8220;Dave Barry on College,&#8221;<\/a> which is a hoot all the way through. His views on sociology and English reminded me of the genre of film criticism I wrote about <a href=\"\/the-nude-bodies-of-ranbir-kapoor-and-shah-rukh-khan\/\" title=\"The Nude Bodies of Ranbir Kapoor and Shah Rukh Khan\">here<\/a>. Immense timepass. <\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/madmanweb.com\" title=\"MadMan\">MadMan<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is so true:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For sheer lack of intelligibility, sociology is far and away the number one subject. I sat through hundreds of hours of sociology courses, and read gobs of sociology writing, and I never once heard or read a coherent statement. This is because sociologists want to be considered scientists, so they spend most of their time translating simple, obvious observations into scientific-sounding code. If you plan to major in sociology, you&#8217;ll have to learn to do the same thing. For example, suppose you have observed that children cry when they fall down. You should write: &#8220;Methodological observation of the sociometrical behavior tendencies of prematurated isolates indicates that a causal relationship exists between groundward tropism and lachrimatory, or &#8216;crying,&#8217; behavior forms.&#8221; If you can keep this up for fifty or sixty pages, you will get a large government grant.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xent.com\/FoRK-archive\/summer96\/0342.html\" title=\"Dave Barry on College\">&#8220;Dave Barry on College,&#8221;<\/a> which is a hoot all the way through. His views on sociology and English reminded me of the genre of film criticism I wrote about <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/the-nude-bodies-of-ranbir-kapoor-and-shah-rukh-khan\/\" title=\"The Nude Bodies of Ranbir Kapoor and Shah Rukh Khan\">here<\/a>. Immense timepass. <\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/madmanweb.com\" title=\"MadMan\">MadMan<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dave Barry on Sociology - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/dave-barry-on-sociology\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dave Barry on Sociology - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is so true: For sheer lack of intelligibility, sociology is far and away the number one subject. 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