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Guerrillas in the Bureaucracy: The Community Planning Experiment in the United States.
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1975
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Sociological MethodEducationGraduate StudentsPolitical BehaviorSocial ChangeUnited StatesCitizen ParticipationSocial SciencesBureaucracyGovernmental ProcessAcademic SociologyPolitical ScienceApplied SociologyAction SociologyCommunity Planning ExperimentPublic PolicySociology LensPolicy PlanningHigher EducationCommunity DevelopmentCommunity OrganizingSociologyCommunity PlanningTeaching SociologySocial Science EducationGovernment Administration
For which audiences would the book be useful? First, it is aimed at the recruit ... for action sociology. Second, it is for hybrids-i.e., professors who are also off-campus sociologists. Third, it is a challenge to educated people who regard sociology as professional scientism (theoretical and methodological sophistry) . . . Included in this third audience are those who exert pressure on graduate students and young academics to stay closer to home . . . -i.e., to confine academic sociology to the cam-