A branch of sociology that examines how materialistic orthodoxies are socially constructed, maintained, and challenged within scientific and philosophical communities. The sociology of materialistic orthodoxy investigates how materialism becomes the default position through scientific training, how it's maintained through institutional mechanisms (funding priorities, publication standards, hiring practices), how dissenters are marginalized or excluded, and how the orthodoxy responds to challenges from dualists, idealists, and other heretics. It also examines the role of materialism as a boundary marker—distinguishing "real" science from "pseudoscience," "serious" philosophy from "woo." The sociology of materialistic orthodoxy reveals that materialism's dominance isn't just about evidence; it's also about social power, institutional authority, and the natural human tendency to treat one's own assumptions as obviously true.
Example: "Her sociology of materialistic orthodoxy research showed how philosophy departments that questioned materialism were systematically excluded from prestige networks—not because their arguments were weak, but because they violated the orthodoxy that defined 'serious' philosophy. The social enforcement was invisible to those who benefited from it."
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Example: “His research into dark matter was driven by the Hypothesis of the Material Beyond: maybe what we call ‘spirit’ is just matter we haven’t detected yet.”
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The materialist version of survival, proposing that what persists after death is some physical substrate—perhaps quantum information, a pattern in the fabric of spacetime, or an undiscovered energy form. It holds that survival is not transcendence of matter but transformation of matter into a different state. This hypothesis opens scientific inquiry into phenomena like terminal lucidity, reincarnation cases, and mediums without invoking the supernatural.
Example: “He researched reincarnation cases not as folklore but through the Hypothesis of Material Survival—assuming that if information persists, it must do so in a physical way, and therefore should be measurable.”
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