It’s not just Jason Arday, most of sociology is a scam
Jason Arday is not the only second rate academic working in sociology. His Cambridge colleagues have also published papers that are impossible to read and contain no evidence, says Paul Ormerod The Jason Arday story has been covered intensively from many different angles. But relatively little has been written on the academic discipline in which [...]
Jason Arday, a professor of sociology at Cambridge University, is not the only second-rate academic in the field, according to Paul Ormerod, an Honorary Professor at the University of Manchester. Ormerod has expressed concern about the quality of academic work in the sociology of education, which Arday was a part of. He found the papers published by the faculty of education at Cambridge to be difficult to comprehend, filled with complex jargon and lacking in empirical evidence.
Ormerod argues that the papers are often repetitive and lack any real attempt to establish whether the assertions made within them are true. He also notes that many academics in this discipline deny the existence of objective truth, which is something they display respect for in their everyday lives. Ormerod suggests that the sociology of education, like other social science disciplines, may be struggling with the concept of objective truth.
He criticizes the university system for housing such departments, which he believes are undeserving of such prestigious institutions.
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