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Struggling for the soul of social science

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    Irving Louis Horowitz (Hannah Arendt Professor of Sociology and Political Science)

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editor-in-chief of Transaction/SOCIETY.He has written widely on the dilemmas of social science and professional values in The Atlantic, the Antioch Review,and elsewhere. His latest work is a biography, C. Wright Mills: An American Utopian,forthcoming from Macmillan/Free Press.

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Horowitz, I.L. Struggling for the soul of social science. Society 20, 4–15 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695001

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