Anti-intellectualism

A few posts back, I mentioned "anti-intellectualism." I found a blog run by a graduate student in sociology (we sociology grads do love our blogs) and the author presents parts of a theory of anti-intellectualism he's been working on. A quick excerpt:

There are many forms of anti-intellectualism: Anti-elitism, Anti-technology, Anti-scientism, Anti-rationalism, Anti-idealism, Anti-philosophy, Anti-political, Anti-skepticism, and Anti-realism to name a few. This list is by no means exhaustive so send in further suggestions if you can think of others.

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In fact, anti-intellectualism is an inquiry into how knowledge is validated among different groups in society, and a development of a typology of common strategies for validating knowledge among these groups. If one dominant strategy emerged for organizing knowledge into right, wrong, and to be investigated; then anti-intellectualism would not exist as a topic of investigation because one form of "knowledge validation" would pervade and no conflict would persist. The first question becomes then, what are the different methods for validating knowledge in social life?

If this sounds interesting to you: enjoy.