One woman got up to denounce him for insulting women with sexist remarks. The final panel was boring. There was a favorable report on the state of Political Science which, allegedly because of its empirical grounding, had escaped the ravages of the new P.C. theories. Sociology, on the other hand, is in very bad shape. Some of the more contentful specializations have spun off into separate disciplines.
Pure sociology tends to be ravaged by leftism and other ideological delusions.
However it is so far out and unsupported by evidence that it attracts few adherents. Those sociologists who undertake quantitative studies make them so abstruse and unreadable that they have little influence either. The result is graduate departments with fewer students than faculty, ignored by the larger scholarly world, and only surviving by institutional inertia. There were two sessions with multiple workshops scheduled. The first was organized topically, and I attended the one on K-12 education.