🇩🇰 That Time Denmark Literally Canceled Sociology
Published by OOPSONLINE.IN · Source: India Today · 1 min read · · Updated
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Shutting down an entire university department because you don't like their reading list is certainly one way to handle peer review.
What actually happened
Amid calls to scrap humanities courses in the IITs, an episode from 1980s' Denmark offers a case to look at, when the University of Copenhagen shut down its two sociology departments. Then-education minister said Marxist politics had compromised the discipline, with political beliefs taking precedence over documented and verifiable research.
Key points
- Amid calls to scrap humanities courses in the IITs, an episode from 1980s' Denmark offers a case to look at, when the University of Copenhagen shut down its two sociology departments.
- Then-education minister said Marxist politics had compromised the discipline, with political beliefs taking precedence over documented and verifiable research.
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