ABSTRACT
Under the leadership of Hans Mauksch, an addicted user of sociology in any of his ventures, those teaching projects became instead a device for illurninating and publicizing the private troubles of the allenated and unknown teachers of sociology. The sociologist-practitioner rakes through the useless chaff, which is usually taught in "theory" courses, in order to discover the occasionai grain. The origins of that useful little theory lie in the practical efforts of a team of sociological draftees doing their job for the army. In fact, it is a rather thin volume when it is produced, not because of the quality of practice, but because of the quality of sociology. Although organizationally fragmented, there is a growing collective identity among practitioners and funny terms like "sociological practice" and "clinical sociology" are more acceptable and better understood as part of the disciplinary vocabulary than they were a decade ago.
