> if a sociologist wanted to study the social impact of transit infrastructure, that would be perfectly reasonable, and we wouldn't expect them to know much going in about signaling systems, switches, or different types of rolling stock.
Yes -- and a good sociologist would also learn a lot about that stuff once they started their research, I'd imagine :). Not enough to be a railway engineer, but presumably enough to be able to speak meaningfully & intelligently to railway engineers. Not unlike science journalists.
Yes -- and a good sociologist would also learn a lot about that stuff once they started their research, I'd imagine :). Not enough to be a railway engineer, but presumably enough to be able to speak meaningfully & intelligently to railway engineers. Not unlike science journalists.