John Levi Martin

I also often asked to explain my commitment to emancipatory social science.  Given that the Berlin wall has come tumbling down (to be replaced by storage units from Ikea), that sociology has become more competitive and professional, and that Angela Davis actually uses agent based modeling to run her hedge fund, they say, isn’t is somewhat anachronistic to link your work in academia to a political project of liberation?   But I think my commitments can be best understood as part of a tradition of sociology as a critical engagement with…what?  What’s that?  I’m not committed to emancipatory social science? Oh f*ck.