Stanislav Andreski.
Social Sciences as Sorcery.
Pelican. 1972
Why, Professor Andreski asks, when the
purpose of social science is to explain
ourselves to ourselves, do so many of its pundits
write in such inexplicable, inextricable prose?
Obscurity, it seems, is the refuge for the
mediocre mind; and lack of originality, if
ticked out in fashionably pompous terms, is
welcomed as profundity.
The author, sweeping jargon under the table, asks some hard-hitting questions in Social Sciences as Sorcery – questions that are not likely to endear him in the citadels of academic authority. In exact, pungent language he shows up the mumbo-jumbo that riddles the literature of the social sciences, and challenges all the ‘academic call-boys’ to try clear, logical means of expression.