ABSTRACT
In most of its meanings, integration is a good thing, a relative of integrity, virtue, and excellence. In the modern world, integration is opposed to the social policy of segregation, especially that odious version in which racial groups could be provided “separate but equal” accommodations. Here, in an invited response to an integrated theory proposed by Delbert Elliott and his colleagues (the theory guiding data collection and analysis of Elliott's famous National Youth Survey), Hirschi suggests by his title that the words used to describe desirable social policies do not necessarily describe desirable intellectual products. Indeed, Hirschi has adhered consistently to a policy of theoretical “segregation,” even to the point of advancing theories apparently inconsistent with one another.— JHL/TH
