Sociology educators say the discipline is a right-wing target because it challenges students to question the status quo.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis greets attendees after speaking at a campaign stop at Pub 52 on January 15, 2024, in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa.arrived at Ohio Wesleyan University as an undergraduate in 1995, she enthusiastically enrolled in a variety of classes, including classics, dance, economics, philosophy and sociology. As an international student from Pakistan, she found the array fascinating, but it was an 8:30 am class called “Intro to Sociology” that most intrigued her.
Fast forward several decades and Jafar is now the chair of the Sociology Department at Connecticut College and served as the co-chair of a seven member committee of the that evaluated the impact of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s attack on public higher education in the Sunshine State.were released in December 2023 and concluded that “academic freedom, tenure, and shared governance in Florida’s public colleges and universities currently face a political and ideological assault unparalleled in U.
The Principles of Sociology course will be replaced by an 18th- and 19th-century U.S. history class that focuses on a close reading of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Federalist Papers.“They are an attack on critical thinking and the embracing of the other. The attacks are intended to create fear and divisions which benefit the autocrats. They fear a country that is diverse and that is powerful because of that diversity. That’s the through line.”, E.P.
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