A good deal of progressive ideology is rooted in sociological theory.

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56. as a physics, math and economics major

I gotta disagree.

A lot of what goes on in economics is not really very rigorous.

And sociology and anthropology, much as I love them, seem to be even worse in terms of rigor.

The other thing is the jump from "is" to "ought". For example, the classical "economic man" was a selfish person who tried to maximize his gain and minimize his costs. Now it would be one thing if it was actually observed "this is the way people really act". But instead, it was just a theoretical construct, but having been advanced as a theory, it entered the world of ideas as "this is a way people 'should' act" or "it is OKAY for people to act this way" or "it is inevitable that people will act this way". As such, economic theory becomes an enabler, in my view, of a whole lot of bad behaviour.