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The Practice of Social Research A Note from the Author riting is my joy, sociology my passion. WI delight in putting words together in a way that makes people learn or laugh or both. Sociology shows up as a set of words, also. It rep- resents our last, best hope for planet-training our race and finding ways for us to live together. I feel a special excitement at being present when sociol- ogy, at last, comes into focus as an idea whose time has come. I grew up in small-town Vermont and New Hampshire. When I announced I wanted to be an auto-body mechanic, like my dad, my teacher told me I should go to college instead. When Malcolm X announced he wanted to be a lawyer, his teacher became too loud to ignore. For me, teaching is like told him a colored boy should be something more playing jazz. Even if you perform the same number like a carpenter. The difference in our experiences over and over, it never comes out the same twice says something powerful about the idea of a level and you don’t know exactly what it’ll sound like playing field. The inequalities among ethnic groups until you hear it. Teaching is like writing with your run deep. voice. I ventured into the outer world by way of At last, I have matured enough to rediscover Harvard, the USMC, U.C. Berkeley, and twelve and appreciate my roots in Vermont each summer. years teaching at the University of Hawaii. I re- Rather than a return to the past, it feels more like signed from teaching in 1980 and wrote full-time the next turn in a widening spiral. I can’t wait to for seven years, until the call of the classroom see what’s around the next bend. ii