The right only entertains "race as sociohistorical construction" when they want to argue against census categories and affirmative action (or what's left of it, which is virtually nothing).

If only we had a discipline devoted to a Critical understanding of the Theory that underlies our understandings of Race. I guess we'll never know.

Of course the Challenger Launch Disaster is probably the quintessential case study.

Years ago I had the idea for a book series in Failure Studies, social histories of plans to improve the human condition that tanked. It turned out to be too big and diffuse. But this seems crucial for any empirical discipline!