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Homo Hierarchicus, Homo Equalis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2008
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I should like to pay my tribute to the memory of Kingsley Martin by calling in question a part of the conventional wisdom of what passes for comparative sociology. I hope I shall not appear unduly contentious in doing so. I should not like to speak badly of comparative sociology. At the same time, it has to be admitted that a truly comparative sociology exists less in the work that scholars actually do than in the ideals they profess. The principal obstacle to its growth is, in my opinion, neither lack of wit nor lack of words: it is prejudice.
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This is the text of Professor Béteille's Kingsley Martin Memorial Lecture, delivered in Cambridge on 7 March 1979.
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