Mr Khan said:
Marx founded sociology as much as Freud founded psychology. The two of them laid out theories that had some good core ideas, but were not verifiable (though part of what failed Marx's predictions was his economic prediction that wages would remain stagnant even as industrial economies grew so that only the capitalists would see the benefit of growth), but their understandings were too simplistic for modernity The key is the difference between disciplines and schools of thought. A discipline is nominally tone neutral, but a school of thought within that discipline is where the bias comes in. (e.g. you have "Economics" and then you have "Keynesian Economics" or "Neoliberal economics."), and schools of thought wax and wane in popularity, but no discipline is itself inherently set one way or another |
The difference between Marx and Frued is that there is nothing that really contradicts Marx.
Unlike Pscyhology where Fruedianism is generaly looked down opon for it's unscientific methods vs the other 3 main schools. (Which ironically all 4 scientifically have the same success therapy rate wise.)
There is nothing much in sociology that actually contradicts Marx works... just some branches downplay the need for violent class revolution... which basically EVERYONE does now a days anyway... and which Marx himself was doing before he died.
Well outside of Eastern Marxist Sociology.... if that's even still around.
Marx, Durkheim and Weber were combined together. Unlike Psychology where the big forms are all completely distinct and opposing forces.
The Marxist foundation is still in use, while the Fruedian one has long been abandoned by everyone... but fruedians. Which are few and far between, and the general contempt shown towards Freudians is generally apparent and applied in the classroom.
It's also very vocally apparent in methods courses.