[Sir Napsalot]

“African sparrow or European sparrow”. What you posted is the physical string theory. Here is the social string theory.

Anyway, kidding aside, the study author stretched too far to sound ‘knowledgeable and impressive’. Such buzzwords are like a piece of brightly colored string with lots of bling, if you twirl fast enough, people will fall for it.

Especially if you have MD, PhD, and all kinds of titles after your name.

[BwanaNdege]

So, in an attempt to "Run with the Big Dogs" of academia and assert their claim to being a "real science", Social Scientists have preempted a term from Physics. What is next, rename Detroit as "The Large Hadron Collider"? Or will San Francisco get that honor?

Googling for "social string theory definition" yielded this gem from the introduction to a paper by Robert L. Oprisko , evidently one of the "Social String Theory" heavy hitters:

Theoria and Praxis, Volume 2, issue 2

Strings: A Political Theory of Multi-Dimensional Reality

Abstract

An "unfaithful" interpretation of Michael Weinstein's oeuvre illuminates a complex, interpenetrative system of realities that reflects the lived experience of his vitalist ontology. By connecting Weinstein’s radical separation and agonic contradiction with Karen Barad’s radical entanglement, I show that reality is an ever-changing unique presentation of active relational engagements in perpetual tension. I propose that theoretical physics and socio-politics have a great deal in common: a unified field theory of being rooted in a multi-dimensional presentation of reality.

Intellectuals and Libertarianism: Thomas Sowell and Robert Nisbet

"Social science experts, according to Sowell, are the modern, secular equivalents of a priestly class, but with this difference: Social scientists, riding on the prestige of the physical (or “hard”) sciences, claim to render objective judgments, free from personal bias or values, about what will promote the good of society or, sometimes, humanity as a whole. Intellectuals who associate with governments typically pride themselves on their objectivity, especially when opposing what they characterize as special interest groups. But such intellectuals have merely hidden their personal values under the mantle of science; in truth, they are just another special interest group with a political agenda."