It is rather interesting fact that none of us is having any doubts about such sciences as physics or medicine. But when it goes to the social sciences there is (at least for me) one interisting problem.
How come we actually have doubts about social sciences? Sometimes it looks like such sciences (as sociology, media studies etc.) are mostly important only for those, who say it is science, i.e. scientists. Those who are the practitionists of the science. What we do, or write is only read or understood by other social scientists.
Is then there any sense at all in all this stuff? One can even say, that the social sciences have the reason only for the social scientists because they are not capable of anything else than creating teoretical categories from "our" everyday life.
How come is this in any way useful for the "common" people? Will their life be changed for the better? And is such change even needed? And are the theories even capable of such thing? Someimes I have serious doubts about this. And when you have doubts about the usefulness, how can you be so sure what exactly should you study or research?
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