The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.
STOP talking trash about social theorists
Karl Marx is REVOLUTIONARY
Émile Durkhheim is ENLIGHTENED
Max Weber is MOTIVATED
W. E. B. Du Bois is LUNMINARY
Talcott Parsons
Anna Julia Cooper is ICONIC
C. Wright Mills is IMAGINATIVE
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Yet, people do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and institutional contradiction. The well-being they enjoy, they do not usually impute to the big ups and downs of the societies in which they live.
No social study that does not come back to the problems of biography, of history and of their intersections within a society has completed its intellectual journey.