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and in providing an avenue of expression for interests and a point of view that for a time were close to being outlawed by the advocates of purity. As I said at the beginning, I have probably overstated my case. I do not wish to imply that there is nothing to be said for pure and basic social science or for sociological On the contrary, I think there is much to be said for them, but there is little point in saying it here because this concern is not currently threatened, and has in fact been over-sold. It seems to me that there is perhaps too much energy being expended in this direction on what has been called grand theory. Some of this seems to me like working on the tower of a structure which still lacks an adequate foundation. In any case, scientific purity is not assured by the negative acts of refusing to participate in community affairs or of not committing oneself on questions of value or public morality. It is more likely to be assured, as I have indicated, by a judicious balancing of the detached theoretical attitude and
Lofland et al. (Sat,) studied this question.