Is Sociology Too Detached

personal values with a practical job orientation. We have seen in the past two decades, and particularly since World War II, the rise of a new social organization: groups of social scientists from varying disciplines at programmatic work on practical and urgent problems. And when a project is undertaken by a group rather than an individual, methodologically appropriate rules of social behavior have to be found and formulated. The modern man of social knowledge, if the Hub is at all typical is grappling with these new norms and demands and, ultimately, values. Historically, the scientist has been responsible to one audience: a body of colleagues who represent an intellectual reference group. Today, the Hub social scientist is like a three-headed Janus facing outward: to the intellectual audience, which makes ever more elegant demands in terms of the current trend toward precision and positivism; to the research organization which imposes on the social scientists the need for interpersonal skills; and lastly, to the public, users and sponsors of research whose support is desperately needed if the social scientist is to continue his quest for a better world

Criminology · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice

• Constraints on a Reform Movement

  Barry Skura•Social Problems•1976

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• Theoretical pluralism, methodological dissension and the role of the sociologist

  Open Access•Rolf Klima•Social Science Information•1972

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• Toward a code of ethics for applied anthropology

  Donald J Tugby•Anthropological Forum•1964

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