Originally Posted by tbomachines

Social scientific, philosophy, and social critical journals are much of the same. Some of the stuff I read is intentionally heady and thick. I never really understood that in articles because it's almost intentional deception or elitism. However I also know that a lot of the authors would argue that they use complicated and nuanced language simply because "ordinary" language (if you will) does not adequately capture their theories. When it takes phd or advanced masters level reading to understand a somewhat simple point, it's annoying more than anything.