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saying that there are many fools and knaves in sociology
-I have heard it said that one finds them also in literary criticisrri
-but it is absurd to deny that the sociological enterprise, especially
over the last quarter of a century, has shown great promise and
considerable fulfillment. The number of vulgar popularizations of
sociological studies which has recently appeared is in some sense a
backhanded tribute which vice pays to virtue.
Lewis Coser
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