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Article: Fields of Play: Constructing an Academic Life.
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- Article from:
- Social Forces
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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By Laurel Richardson. Rutgers University Press, 1997. 255 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $17.95.
Reviewer: DAVID R. MAINES, Oakland University
As Gouldner observed at the end of The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology, it is both ironic and self-indulgent for sociologists to assume that their work is somehow immune from the social forces that, in their theories and research, they assert influence other peoples' lives. Not only are sociologists influenced in much the same ways that nonsociologists are influenced - the stuff of the sociology of knowledge - but, as Gouldner argues further, the "world out there" has become part of academic life, and its corrupting ...