Social science

Bourgeois social science
Bourgeois social science is social science produced by the bourgeoisie and their intellectual employees. In other words, it is essentially all of modern social science, with the possible exception of dissenting, anti-capitalist genres such as radical political economy, critical theory, Marxian groups within the various social sciences, etc.

Bourgeois social science undoubtedly embodies a large amount of useful information. However, if one takes seriously the Marxist claim that the ideology of an era functions to justify and facilitate the class relations of that era, bourgeois social science cannot be regarded as entirely objective or value-neutral. One must be on the look-out for assumptions, ommissions, ways of framing problems, placements of emphasis, etc., that arise from its class situation.

A partial list of the terms that have been applied to and the charges that have been levelled against bourgeois social science includes:
 * That it is an exercise in apologetics which is dissmissive of and seeks to justify the baneful features of capitalism,
 * That it obfuscates, mystifies, and creates confusion about the true state of affairs,
 * That it contains reifications such as commodity fetishism and false universalizations.