ABSTRACT
Because time is so limited, I’ll just say that my summary answer to the question—is there a life for sociology after deconstruction?—is a definite yes. The question of what kind of life or, as Steve Seidman put it to me, the question of what social analysts can offer is of course the tricky one, and I suspect it will take some time and practice to figure it out. Not because we’re especially slow, but because a longwave perspective here avoids all kinds of misunderstandings. We’ll be figuring it out within at least three contexts that I think are worth putting on the table.
