Progressive Courses

Are Social Sciences and Humanities, including US History, college courses taught from a progressive framework?

https://youtube.com/shorts/ya7RxYMzeC4?si=17KuPoXBNy3hZYju

 

Quantifying such a highly subjective concept seems futile.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

California

 

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

 

They should be.

 

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

 

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