ABSTRACT
The graduate program was also changing. Victor and the author offered several new seminars in theoretical sociology that they taught together—one on the German tradition, another on the French, a third on the Anglo-American, and a fourth in contemporary theory, largely American. Victor was especially good on the French materials and he is on the German. One result was that when they got to examining Marx's theory, students had a fuller understanding of the place of these traditions in Marx's work. What Victor and he got, in addition to the pleasure of the experience, was a deepening of the understanding of these bodies of knowledge and of the many things required in constructing a good, viable theory. When Victor Lidz came to Penn in fall 1973 he was quite fortuitously given an office next to him. One of the faculty members deciding on Anderson's candidacy at Penn was tenured associate professor of sociology with well-advertised reputation for supporting liberal causes.
