Lamenting the left's lock on sociology. (shift in political orientation among scholars and writers in sociology) From: Insight on the News | Date: February 14, 1994| Author: Goode, Stephen | COPYRIGHT 1994 News World Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Summary: Sociology has taken a disastrous lunge to the left, say some disillusioned practitioners, deploring a shift from objectivity to polemics. Although others acknowledge the field has become politicized, they view the situation as less dire.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small," said Henry Kissinger, once a professor as well as a statesman. Departmental colleagues stop speaking to one another. Carefully nutured reputations colla...

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