摘要：I was a graduate student in the sociology department at Brandeis University in theearly 1970s, and it was as improbable a gathering of intellectual dissidents as onecould imagine. Amidst the loosely constructed community of Marxists, communityorganisers, amateur therapists and field work mavens was Egon Bittner, whodid not fit into any category but who was, in many ways, the most authenticsociological voice in the department
