ABSTRACT
Sociologists are relatively rare even in the more modest role of adviser to the temporarily powerful and those in lesser positions of power. Questions, science, theory, are as such timeless, i.e., conceivable apart from the dimension of time. The rules for solving problems must enable people to give an answer in time; indeed, timeliness is a part of correctness. Henry Christelow is a character in Robert Robinson’s intriguingly titled detective novel Landscape with Dead Dons. Even in theory, however, the world of problems and the world of questions are not easily kept separate. In early 1964, Project Camelot, the biggest and possibly the most influential research project in the history of sociology, was launched with a grant of four to six million dollars from the Special Operations Research Office (SORO) of the United States Army. The late Rex Hopper, a well-known expert on Latin American affairs and theorist of revolution, became the director of the project.
