The identity crisis of contemporary sociology

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One source of sociology's organizational and academic problems is a growing lack of intellectual self‐definition. The frequent celebration of sociology as a multiparadigm discipline is both an effect and a source of this lack of self‐definition. Some of the roots of the present crisis are traced to the acceptance of outside values, ideological and otherwise, as a means of specifying what is and is not sociologically appropriate. As this occurs, we become more and more an adjunct of other intellectual and policy‐oriented projects, becoming less and less a distinctive and intellectually credible discipline that has much to offer on its own terms. Not being vital to ourselves, we cease to be vital to others.

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