are there any major breakthroughs in the fields of social sciences recently?

Question

even those that were 2 to 5 years ago.

Answer 1

Yes, people eventually realised that economics is a whole load of hogcrap.

Answer 2

There has been a major breakthrough in the field of cognitive psychology. For centuries, these specialists wonder what illiterate people do when they are not digging ditches or flippin McBurgers.

So, they designed a survey of Internet websites. Guess what?

The researchers found that they're all here. Right here! I mean, like, online with Yahoo Answers. Probably right now. This instant. You know? I mean, like, thousands of pepol what cant spel or rite a desint sentance or nuthin. aint that, like, totaly amasing? Wow, like the thingh totaly meses up my mine and everthin. Ya no i cud go on, but i gotta go rite a S A on NEGATIVE DIALECTICS AND ANTHROPOMORPHIC SEMBLANCE IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE. May bee U cn help.

Answer 3

It seems to me that the resurgence of anti-behavioralist ideologies is probably the most significant thing to have recently occured in the social sciences, although it'd be hard to describe it as a breakthrough.