ABSTRACT
Winch’s project with respect to social studies is described and considered. If he is right, it has significant and foundational implications for sociology and allied disciplines. In short, they are better understood as ‘misbegotten epistemology’—but only insofar as epistemology itself is reformed to dissolve problems rather than get hung up (fruitlessly) on solving them. Winch’s position is more incredulity about the mistakes sociologists make than any attempt to try to repair the discipline: it is systematically broken.
