Gary Marx recalls the sixties at Berkeley:

"Berkeley in 1960 represented the best of the Chicago, Columbia, and Harvard sociological traditions. It was probably the only major school not dominated by one or two powerful intellectual figures and a single methodological or theoretical approach. Matching the political theory of many of its professors was an intellectual pluralism and personal respect for colleagues in other camps. The faculty was not divided along the ideological, generational, and methodological lines that were to emerge after the Free Speech Movement. "C. Wright Mills's just published The Sociological Imagination, was not well known and Alvin Gouldner's Coming Crisis was almost a decade away. To be sure, the themes they developed existed beneath the surface and occasionally made for lively discussion, especially in conversations with graduate students from New York. However, these strands had not yet become powerful enough to disrupt the view of a coherent and consensual social world that could only be understood through positivism, particularly by means of survey research and experiments, and through structural functionalist theory. The Marxist, phenomenological, ethnic and feminist perspectives that were to divide sociology a decade later were barely heard."

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