"The Cardinal Sin of the Social Researcher Is Squeezing the World into His Worldview"

"But while some sociologists proudly claim that their field is a 'weapon' for progressive causes, others have recognized the problem of adopting a narrow ideological compass to guide what is meant to be a broadly-trusted disciplinary ship. Christian Smith, one of America's most prominent sociologists of religion, observed that wielding sociology as an activist tool 'tends to produce sectarian narrowness, exclusion, uniformity, silencing, self-censorship, lack of debate, the negative sanctioning of non-conformists, and the debilitation of rigorous thought.'
"In other words, the opposite of what an academic field is meant to do."

Eboo Patel at Persuasion writes that "We Must Save Sociology From Itself."