Progressive Courses

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US History and or Intro To Sociology are being taught from a progressive point of view?

  1. Yes

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  2. No

    3 vote(s)
    37.5%
  3. Perhaps

    5 vote(s)
    62.5%
  1. MaceWindu

    MaceWindu Active Member

  2. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Anywhere? Sure.

    Everywhere? No.

    As pervasively as conservative media personalities would have people believe? Also no.
     
  3. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    Quantifying such a highly subjective concept seems futile.
     
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  4. NotJoeBiden

    NotJoeBiden Active Member

    I was taught the civil war wasn't about slavery, it was about states right, so Im gonna say no.
     
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  5. Bill Huffman

    Bill Huffman Well-Known Member

    Based on this, I'll guess that you went to school in the south.
     
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  6. Dustin

    Dustin Well-Known Member

    I havent watched the YouTube video linked, but I've taken courses that were obviously written from a conservative perspective and those obviously written from a more left-wing perspective.

    I think most courses will land somewhere in the middle, and when done well, you won't feel an obvious ideological bent.
     
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  7. Mac Juli

    Mac Juli Well-Known Member

    Hello!

    My personal impression is that more courses are from a liberal perspective because, well, conservative people are probably more likely NOT to study sociology or history and/or teach it. It might be a cliche, I know that, but it fits my personal observation.

    Best regards,
    Mac Juli
     
  8. Jonathan Whatley

    Jonathan Whatley Well-Known Member

    We could just as well ask, Are business courses taught from a conservative framework? And the answer might be more telling. Business areas are by far the most common majors in the US.
     
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  9. tadj

    tadj Well-Known Member

    There is some "evidence for the counter-intuitive conclusion that cultural conservatism has more often been associated with left-wing than with right-wing economic attitudes within nations around the world. Within mass publics, the organization of cultural and economic attitudes along the right–left dimension seems to be the exception rather than the rule."

    The above research examined "the relationship between two preference dimensions that are widely recognized as central to ideological differences between the right and left: the economic dimension, which concerns redistributive social welfare preferences and views about the proper scope of government economic involvement, and the cultural dimension, which concerns views on matters such as sexual morality and immigration."

    Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/are-cultural-and-economic-conservatism-positively-correlated-a-largescale-crossnational-test/83AFEDEA5E004CF23631C5388E7C9F67
     
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  10. NotJoeBiden

    NotJoeBiden Active Member

    California
     
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  11. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Imagine writing that and not including even a reference to the Nolan Chart, which says the same thing and has been around since 1969.
     
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  12. MaceWindu

    MaceWindu Active Member

    According to that chart Libertarians and Centrists should be alarmed about present day policies and politics coming out of DC.
     
  13. NotJoeBiden

    NotJoeBiden Active Member

    They should be.
     
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  14. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    I'm extremely alarmed, so that tracks.
     
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  15. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Basically, today's GOP has been taken over by what William F. Buckley called “the fever swamps of the berserk right”.
     
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  16. Bill Huffman

    Bill Huffman Well-Known Member

    Yes, it appears the fever swamp virus has muted and became much more contagious.
     
  17. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    MAGA looks more like a straight personality cult than a Right Wing movement.
     
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