ABSTRACT

There are at least nine categories of concern that have consistently emerged from the discourse on Black sociology. They are values, the insider-outsider controversy, methodology, perspective, content, distortion and omission of the Black experience, intentionality, models of social change, and institutionalization. First, the value component gives recognition to the observation that value-free social science is a fallacy. The critical needs are to reveal what the values of the research endeavor are and to embrace values appropriate to its objectives.3