Sublime

the mental inertia that John Stuart Mill called the ‘deep slumber of a decided opinion’.

‘exploratory social science’.

Cornell finds, the institutionalization and fostering of distinct identities increase autonomous groups' "cohesion and willingness to act";

In the worst of these conditions, knowledge is wielded as a tool of power through which education systems can actively oppress entire populations, preventing the awareness of their own agency in their lives.

All of these institutions are granted licence to look ahead and to think heretical thoughts, and some have strong links to power. Any government which lacks the capacity to imagine and explore is likely to be condemned to responding to the world, rather than shaping it.

modernization theorists

The more practice-oriented disciplines of social science tend to be pulled into incremental work rather than radical imagination, and most prominent figures in the social sciences achieve fame through diagnosis more than prescription.