“…is also the ruler of grammar ' (1994 [1940]: 202). Friedrich Naumann described the satellite states in an imperial system in similar terms: 'these states have their own life, their own summers and winters, their own culture, worries and glories, but in the grand world-historical scheme of things they no longer follow their own laws but work to reinforce the leading group' (Naumann, 1964(Naumann, [1915; in Blindow, 1999: 74). 12 Between 1945 and 1965 American sociology not only translated the knowledge of other fields into its own disciplinary codes, but to some extent other disciplines began to speak the language of sociology.…”