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This kind of position accomplished several things in my view, so far as the future development of sociology is concerned. It trades on a view of a living tradition in which writers such as Marx and Weber were treated as inspirational but not infallible. On the Marxist side Mills, in his rejection of economic determinism, strengthened the voluntaristic version which was to become associated with a renewed interest in 'the young Marx'. Alongside this goes the requirement to re-examine the appropriateness of the base-superstructure metaphor in Marx.
Xiii). The task of the Marxist outlaw is to hold to the critical method which has its antecedents in Gouldner's view in the Socratic method. To apply it to Marxism and to the practical outworkings of Marxism is, as Gouldner puts it, to explore the dark side of the dialectic. 'Only those who can move without joining packaged tours of the world can afford such a journey' (op. , p. xvi). Within the British context one can see the way in which writers in the New Left mould have created space to do their own scholarly work - mindful of Marx, but prepared to amend, to reconsider and to subject to critical scrutiny Marx's own work.
Focussing on a particular problem or working within a specialised area of the discipline can become a limiting and sterile experience. Fragmentation would then be a meaningless splintering of the subject or even the loss of any disciplinary identity. On the other hand, there can be an imaginative interplay both with other disciplines and with other areas of sociology. It is to the nature of sociological imagination that I now turn. PART II ALL THINGS NEW? 'The history of the social sciences is and remains a continuous process passing from the attempt to order reality analytically through the construction of concepts - the dissolution of the analytical constructs so constructed through the expansion and shift of the scientific horizon -and the reformulation anew of concepts of the foundations thus transformed.