I found
myself launched on the j ourney that took me to Brandeis University (in
1 967, when students were an unsettling ethnic category in the United
States) and then on to the University of Chicago. In 1 970, I was still drifting
toward a rendezvous with American social science, area studies, and
that triumphal form of modernization theory that was still a secure article
of Americanism in a bipolar world.