Handing critique off to sociology makes academic division of labor a methodological principle

Evidence

Where it seems to go beyond this discourse, as in its logical purifications, only the skeleton remains of the same universe—a ghost much more ghostly than those which the analysis combats. If philosophy is more than an occupation, it shows the grounds which made discourse a mutilated and deceptive universe. To leave this task to a colleague in the Sociology or Psychology Department is to make the established division of academic labor into a methodological principle. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 701

Categorization

• XREF: This is a direct swipe at the disciplinary silo-ization of critique; connects to Adorno’s attack on positivist sociology’s compartmentalization and to the reader’s ‘flattened thought’ thesis about administered academia. — connects to: Empirical sociology’s operational methodology is itself ideological — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 447; Sociological method can unify disciplines through shared abstract generality. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 1446; Anglo-American sociology defines itself by research methods rather than by theory (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Sociology is one method among many, not a master science #contradicts (0.85) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 418
• Sociological method can unify disciplines through shared abstract generality. #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 1446
• Anglo-American sociology defines itself by research methods rather than by theory #qualifies (0.75)