“My conception stands opposed to social science as a set of bureaucratic techniques which inhibit social inquiry by ‘methodolocigal’ pretentions, which congest such work by obscurantist conceptions, or which trivialize it by concern with minor problems unconnected with publicly relevant issues.” MediocritySociologySocial ScienceRigidityPretentiousnessProcedureAcademese Book:The Sociological Imagination Source: The Sociological Imagination
“Sometimes, by the way, you may find that a book does not really have any themes. It is just a string of topics, surrounded, of course, by methodological introductions to methodology, and theoretical introductions to theory. These are quite indispensable to the writing of books by men without ideas. And so is lack of intelligibility.” AcademeseIntellectual Posturing Book:The Sociological Imagination Source: The Sociological Imagination