Manuel Castells and the Decline of Twentieth-century Sociology

A quick consideration of the recent decade reveals the implosion of sociology. Several sociology departments have been merged with those from other disciplines, and as the number of undergraduate sociology majors has declined, some even have been eliminated. The discipline’s research openly assumes an ideological tone palatable to only the most liberal of scholars or ignorant of laymen. Clearly, the discipline Auguste Comte once set at the apex of the sciences is in a free-fall and his grandiose vision that it be the queen of the sciences and savior of the world now mocks those hopes in its decline into the periphery of social sciences alone.