'I am a Wobbly. I mean this spiritually and politically. In saying this I refer less to political orientation than to political ethos, and I take Wobbly to mean one thing: the opposite of bureaucrat...[social science] is now split into statistical stuff and heavy duty theoretical bullshit." C. Wright Mills "Nothing human is alien to me" Karl Marx
Thursday, January 19, 2012
mills on "statistical stuff and heavy duty theoretical bullshit"
In a letter (Sept. 17, 1951) to an editor of Knopf publishers, C. Wright Mills complains of the fact that Sociology "is now split into statistical stuff and heavy duty theoretical bullshit." Despite some major exceptions, this state of affairs unfortunately continues...
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