ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author shows how ideas and ideologies that are employed in the battle for social change oftentimes end up in the unwitting service of bureaucratic management. In effect, he also shows that a dialectic of ideology and organization takes the form of high innovation in prerevolutionary phases or in active periods of social change. The author provides some fine vignettes of the French salon, the English coffee houses, the rise of the Royal Society in England, the professionalization of literary production in England, and the movement among writers from dilettantism to commercialization. "The Intellectual in Contemporary America", will be of unquestionable interest to all social scientists concerned with relations between social science and public policy. The author also provides a framework, not just for the sociology of knowledge, but more significantly a point of departure for handling problems in the sociology of sociology.
