Dennis Prager Show - "Dennis, what are your thoughts on sociology?" - Open Lines Hour
Aired: 2021-05-07
Duration: 03:28


=== Waste of Education (02:24) ===

[00:00:00]  Hi, thank you for having me on, Mr. Prager.
[00:00:03]  I wanted to ask you your thoughts on the study of sociology.
[00:00:10]  Are you thinking of majoring in it?
[00:00:13]  No, I'm in college right now, and I'm taking it this semester.
[00:00:18]  And from what it looks like, it's an extremely leftist, honestly, pseudoscience kind of a facet of regular psychology.
[00:00:30]  And it teaches victimhood, and it teaches a bunch of other far-left ideals as fact.
[00:00:39]  You got it right.
[00:00:41]  That's exactly my view of it.
[00:00:43]  It's a waste.
[00:00:45]  I mean, I wish it were just a waste.
[00:00:48]  It's worse than a waste.
[00:00:49]  That is exactly right.
[00:00:51]  But it's true for virtually every one of the quote-unquote social sciences.
[00:00:56]  In fact, anything outside of STEM. Science, technology, what is the E again?
[00:01:03]  Engineering and math.
[00:01:04]  Yes, engineering, math.
[00:01:05]  Thank you.
[00:01:06]  You know, the departments of English are notorious indoctrination centers.
[00:01:12]  You know, they dismiss Shakespeare as a white European heterosexual male.
[00:01:17]  Not to regard him as the greatest writer perhaps in world history, after the Bible, and certainly in English.
[00:01:27]  So you're really stuck if you want to take political science or history, sociology, anthropology, and anything with the word studies in it.
[00:01:38]  Right.
[00:01:39]  Yeah.
[00:01:40]  Are you at college?
[00:01:43]  I am.
[00:01:44]  I'm studying to be a physical therapist, but this is one of the, it's required as a gen ed course.
[00:01:53]  Well, what are your other choices for gen ed?
[00:01:58]  More of the same, unfortunately.
[00:02:01]  How did you develop your sober attitudes towards life?
[00:02:08]  Largely in part to my mom.

=== People Like You Give Hope (01:18) ===

[00:02:12]  I've been listening to your show because of her for years now.
[00:02:16]  And she taught me personal responsibility all throughout life, so I think that's a big part of it.
[00:02:25]  So I think I asked you, but I don't remember your answer.
[00:02:28]  Are you at college?
[00:02:30]  I am.
[00:02:31]  Which one?
[00:02:34]  I started at the University of Oregon, but the tuition is so high I had to come back home and I go to a community college right now.
[00:02:42]  Well, you have a better chance at getting a professor at a community college who actually believes in teaching than indoctrinating than you do at a university.
[00:02:54]  So that might work out.
[00:02:56]  Well, I'd like to invite you, too, to Prager Force.
[00:02:58]  Are you familiar with PragerU?
[00:03:00]  I am, yes.
[00:03:02]  Okay, wonderful.
[00:03:03]  Well, thank you for calling.
[00:03:05]  People like you give people hope.
[00:03:06]  She's 19. It has been a very great facet of my life in the last decade, the number of young people I interact with and get to know and get to touch.
[00:03:24]  And it gives you hope.