September 22, 2000

Do Sociologists Care Too Little About Theory, and Too Much About Their Image?

To the Editor:

Sociology is and can be scientific. There is quite a bit of work similar to the kind that Theodore D. Kemper describes ("Toward Sociology as a Science, Maybe," Opinion, August 11), most notably in the developing area of group processes, but (less consistently) in other areas as well. I myself work in a program -- on expectation states -- that has a 40-year history of cumulative development of knowledge about status processes, self-evaluation, distributive justice, and

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