The first and most obvious problem is that—to the extent that sociology misrecognizes and somewhat masks the fact that it is and has a sacred project—the discipline is being dishonest with itself, its students, their parents, college and university administrators and donors, and American taxpayers. Sociology is caught in a conundrum here. It is and has a sacred project, but it cannot own up to that fact and say it in so many words. There is small chance that sociology will simply abandon its spiritual project, but it also cannot come completely clean with its various constituencies about it.
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