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Becker advanced the increasingly widespread notion that sociological theory and practice, while interrelated, needed to remain separate areas of study. 96 Becker’s opposition was not the only obstacle to Mills’s ambition. He had to finish his dissertation hastily in 1942 in order to retain his new post as associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland. The final dissertation contained no introduction, no conclusion, and an appendix of self-criticism. ”97 The dissertation, “A Sociological Account of Some Aspects of Pragmatism,” interpreted the careers of three pragmatists: Peirce, James, and Dewey (a planned chapter on Mead was dropped due to time constraints).
Though professional philosophers in the first decades of the twentieth century increasingly viewed philosophy as a specialized discipline with its own technical issues, Chicago pragmatists had a much broader conception. 18 Thus, Gentry and Miller encouraged Mills’s exploration of social scientific methodology in his philosophical work. The legacy of this Chicago pragmatist approach resonated throughout Mills’s career. He never lost his strong sense that the human sciences were engaged in a common project, and he always opposed making sociology a specialized science sharply demarcated from other forms of social inquiry, a position that would distinguish him from such discipline-building sociologists as Parsons and Merton.
German intellectuals played a key role in attacking Mannheim’s ideas in the United States. 75 A different and more influential critique, however, came from the German sociologist Alexander von Schelting. Von Schelting’s review of Ideologie und Utopie, solicited by Howard Becker, was published in 1936 in the American Sociological Review. Because the review appeared before the publication of the English translation, Ideology and Utopia, it set the terms of the American debate. Von Schelting’s critique of Mannheim rested on a neo-Kantian perspective, which he attributed to Max Weber.