The Troubled State of Sociology Increasingly, sociologists are expected to avoid research questions and theories that involve the role of culture in shaping societal inequalities.

Sociologist @ashleytrubin argues her own field has made certain questions off-limits — cultural explanations for poverty and crime, biology, evolution, even class analysis — not because the evidence rules them out, but because the answers are politically uncomfortable.…

— Quillette (@Quillette) August 24, 2026