Lamont’s How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment keeps annoying me. Lamont keeps repeating that literary studies are “subjective and imaginative” while social studies are “objective and information-based.” Scholars of literature, she claims, don’t care about what’s true and welcome statements that are obviously false but pretty.
After going on about this for several pages, she “proves” her assertion with 2 statements made by 2 anonymous English lit profs in private conversations.
Yes, folks, this is real science, unlike those subjective literary studies. Somebody said something to me once or twice, so I can make huge general assertions about an entire field.
Of course, I can counter this with a claim that 3 people said to me that sociology studies exclusively pink giraffes with purple spots and insist that this must be true.
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No, no, these are purple giraffes with pink spots. Easy mistake to make.
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