We live in a world in which powerful countries determine the pathways for disciplines that may flourish such as SMET " Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology ". These countries stress upon what is envisaged as "fast" contributor to adding wealth & thus power.

Social sciences are not seen, by the powerful, as adding too much to the sought accumulation of might and therefore, they are underestimated in the present era.

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IMHO, with exceptions, social scientists in the so-called Free World are committing quasi-suicide by politicizing the disciplines. Moreover, so many self-identified social scientists are apologists for dictatorships --especially of the so-called Left-- that we lose credibility; but I hope that trends change for the better w/ time