Commentary on Gray.

The author criticizes the article by David J. Gray published in the periodical "Sociological Quarterly." In the article, Gray claims that the chief characteristic of our whole historical development is to have swept cleanly away all the older social forms of organization. One of Gray's failures, according to the author, is his shifting of meaning for value and value free. The highest use to which Gray's article might be put would be as material for a class exercise in conceptual analysis. Gray has also overlooked the fact that sociologists, like medical researchers, may legitimately adopt value positions.