The pure theory of scienticity is itself highly scientific. It also has
practical value: It explains why so much sociology is so
unscientific and untheoretical. It thereby implies a methodology outlining the
ideal social location for scientific and theoretical sociology-a guide for the
future.
Do you want to be purely sociological? Do you want to theorize about social
life without being ideological, teleological, and psychological? Do you want to
create theory that is testable, general, simple, valid, and original? If so,
you should carefully engineer the social structure of your work. In particular,
you should find a theoretical location in social space: Exploit the literature
of anthropology and history, shifting from one subject to another, constantly
widening your territory. Do nothing but theory, consuming the facts gathered by
researchers, explaining their findings, testing your ideas, while never
becoming highly intimate with any single subject. Finally, you should banish
the person to psychology and study only the behavior of social life.
Pure sociology
thus provides a pure methodology. Obey these commandments (Black 2000a):
1) Leave home: Find subjects in other times and places.
2) Be a nomad: Move from subject to subject.
3) Be a parasite: Subsist on the findings of others.
4) Avoid intimacy: Do not get too close to your subject.
5) Avoid people: Study social life.
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