> Gouldner's comments are about social scientists who exempt themselves from
> structural analysis. Everyone else's actions can be analyzed according to
> such an analysis, but the social scientist doesn't subject his own work or
> life to the same sort of analysis.
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And when AG pointed/wrote towards/with reflexivity, he was accused of inciting navel-gazing etc.
"Knowing who you are in society is in part knowing that you are part of a tradition in which knowing who you are is important and which is committed to this quest. A sociology of sociology and a critique of social theory is simply part of this tradition and an effort to enact it under special contemporary conditions. ['The Politics of the Mind' in "For Sociology", 1973]