CONTRASTING IDEOLOGIES.

The November, 1973, issue of "The American Sociologist," a periodical is as good an illustration of contrasting ideologies within a field as the author could imagine occurring outside a contrived debate. At first glance there appear to be only a couple of specific differences of opinion, but a closer look shows a more general and more basic difference in outlook. What are the ideologies, and can they be summarized into coherent positions. The author have tried left vs. right, radical vs. conservative, modern vs. classical, with it vs. out of it, active vs. passive, hard line vs. soft line, none seems to do the job, yet in a way all of them do. But why do all of them seem to work after considerable thought an answer comes up. The thing they all have in common is that what one side considers sociology to be is what is wrong with sociology. Their notion of what sociology is precisely what they think sociology ought not be. In short, sociology is wrong, and the sociological enterprise needs to be corrected.