If you were interested in the social sciences, unless you use calipers on the regular, the right wing in the USA will label you as a liberal, as weak, as something to be fought against. Unless you grow up with a robust support network that encourages and protects against outsiders frustrating efforts into deep learning of the social sciences, most intellectual curiosity would be firmly bullied out of you.

The narrative being, only the elite should know enough about history and society to be able to talk about the good/bad of a society and which way to direct it. The rest of the rabble should go "learn to code" if they are "smart" or settle in to multiple part time jobs flipping burgers, rolling burritos, and stocking shelves in grocery stores if they aren't "smart".