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(1) Be a good craftsman: Avoid any rigid set of procedures. Above all, seek to develop and to use the sociological imagination. Avoid the fetishsm of method and technique. Urge the rehabilitation of the unpretentious intellectual craftsman, and try to become such a craftsman yourself. Let every man be his own methodologist; let every man be his own theorist; let theory and method again become part of the practice of a craft. Stand for the primacy of the individual scholar; stand opposed to the ascendancy of research teams of technicians. Be one mind that is on its own confronting the problems of man and socienty.

(2) Avoid the Byzantine oddity of associated and dissociated concepts, the mannerism of verbiage.... Avoid using unintelligibility as a means of evading the making of judgments upun society - and as ameans of escaping your readers' judgments upon your own work

(3) Make any trans-historical constuctions you think your work requires: also delve into sub-historical minutiae....

(4) Do not study merely one small milieu after another; study the social structures in which milieux are organized...

(5) Realize that your aim is a fully comparative understanding of the social structures that have appeared and that do now exist in world history. Realize that to carry it out you must avoid the arbitrary specialization of prevailing academic departments....

(6) Always keep your eyes open to the image of man - the generic notion of his human nature - which by your work you are assuming and implying; and also the the image of history - your notion of how history is being made...

(7) Know that you inherit and are carrying on the tradition of classic social analysis; so try to understand man not as an isolated fragments, not as an intelligible filed or system in and of itself. Try to understand men and women as historical and social actors, and the ways in which the variety of man and women are intricately selected and intricately formed by the variety of human societies...

(8) Do not allow public issues as they are officially formulated, or troubles as they are privately felt, to determin the problems that you take up for study. Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues - and in terms of the problems of history-making.....

* Edmund Wilson (the best critic in the English-speaking world)

"As for my experience with articles by experts in anthropology and sociology, it has led me to conclude that the requirement, in my ideal university, of having the papers in every department passed by a professio of English might result in revolutionizing these subjects - if indeed the second of them survived at all."