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A field that applies sociological and anthropological methods to skeptical communities, practices, and ideologies. It examines how skeptics are recruited and socialized, how skeptical organizations maintain boundaries between “legitimate” and “pseudoskepticism,” how skepticism intersects with politics and culture, and how skeptical claims are produced and circulated. The social sciences of skepticism ask: why do some people become professional skeptics? How does skepticism function as a social identity? What are the blind spots of skeptical communities? It treats skepticism not as a pure rational stance but as a social phenomenon worthy of empirical study.
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