Social Science Neil Postman Summary

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Throughout Neil Postman’s short essay, he often rejects the term “social science,” because he believes that is isn’t science that he and other social scientists are doing. He compares what he does to “Moral theology” and “storytelling.” He claims that social science is a form of “Moral Theology.” He says that sociologists, never discover anything new, but instead they are rediscovering things that people have forgotten but need to remember. He then compares Jesus’ work to that of “keen” Sociology and a more concise version of what the sociology Veblen did. He is saying that sociologists are doing work similar to that of theologians because theologians would make up a story with a moral and use that to teach their message, but sociologists