Message from @Soph

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2017-07-15 20:51:56 UTC  

Social sciences are widely accepted in the STEM field

2017-07-15 20:52:53 UTC  

first of all you need to take a breather, you cuss every other word, baboon

2017-07-15 20:53:02 UTC  

what's your issue?

2017-07-15 20:53:29 UTC  

I'm betting he's american, the word science has different implications here

2017-07-15 20:54:35 UTC  

And saying we'd be eating rats without social science is somehow adding to any discussion

2017-07-15 20:54:42 UTC  

you think that's an actual argument?

2017-07-15 20:55:03 UTC  

Name me something you can do with sociology in this day and age

2017-07-15 20:55:07 UTC  

It's contributing evidence of social scientists functionality and benifits

2017-07-15 20:55:36 UTC  

And what is it that social scientists do that benefits humanity?

2017-07-15 20:55:58 UTC  

Urban planning, human geography

2017-07-15 20:56:08 UTC  

Urban planning? how?

2017-07-15 20:56:22 UTC  

We did it fine before social scientists

2017-07-15 20:57:00 UTC  

I don't see anything concrete you can do there

2017-07-15 20:57:04 UTC  

Urban planning is literally a field in STEM

2017-07-15 20:57:04 UTC  

sorry

2017-07-15 20:57:22 UTC  

how is urban planning linked to social science?

2017-07-15 20:57:39 UTC  

you too, go look up the word argument

2017-07-15 20:58:04 UTC  

I'd rather talk to void tbh, you seem a bit dim

2017-07-15 20:58:47 UTC  

Doesn't show

2017-07-15 20:58:51 UTC  

Understanding the way humans operate and settle is integral to planning infrastructure

2017-07-15 20:59:25 UTC  

Bickering isn't constructive, cut it out

2017-07-15 20:59:30 UTC  

and what has social science told us about how humans operate that was different than before the social scientists?

2017-07-15 20:59:39 UTC  

I can't think of anything really

2017-07-15 20:59:53 UTC  

In practical terms

2017-07-15 21:00:17 UTC  

The act of gaining knowledge from observation, studying natural phenomena, and analyzing it is the science

2017-07-15 21:01:59 UTC  

I mean more practical as in, what has changed in a city as a result of social scientists sharing their knowledge?

2017-07-15 21:02:31 UTC  

Stuff like how we've moved away from centralized city layouts

2017-07-15 21:04:01 UTC  

Streamlining production and convenience by developing districts

2017-07-15 21:04:25 UTC  

I thought architects did that

2017-07-15 21:04:41 UTC  

Architects design buildings

2017-07-15 21:05:10 UTC  

More than just building, they can design entire parts of cities

2017-07-15 21:05:15 UTC  

Urban planners deal with where they all are, how you get to them, the distances between them and different buildings

2017-07-15 21:06:13 UTC  

You see calling it a science is a stretch because it takes this long to come up with a somewhat disputed thing that they contribute

2017-07-15 21:06:24 UTC  

I'd call psychology a science before sociology

2017-07-15 21:06:37 UTC  

It's actually put into practice every day

2017-07-15 21:07:10 UTC  

They both fit under the definition of a science

2017-07-15 21:08:26 UTC  

I can see where the skepticism comes from, since it's pretty hard to point at something they really do

2017-07-15 21:08:44 UTC  

I'm sure they publish papers all the time, but how many are actually being put into practice?

2017-07-15 21:09:01 UTC  

I think an advertising bureau does more research and actually applies it

2017-07-15 21:10:00 UTC  

Science isn't defined by how often it's put into use. By this logic a physical cosmologist is not a scientist.

2017-07-15 21:10:33 UTC  

No but you can see why someone is skeptical of it