There's a Lot to Be Said for Brevity

I was enjoying reading Qualitative Methods: Their History in Sociology and Anthropology until I came across the following sentence that is just ridiculously too long:

With the present abandonment of virtually every facet of what might now be recognized as the interlocked, secular, eschatological legacies of Comte, Tönnies, Wissler, Redfield, Park, and Parsons—that is, the recognition that the “comparative method� and the anthropology of primitism is inherently flawed by both its Eurocentric bias and its methodological inadequacies; the determination that the gemeinschaft of the little community has been subverted by the overwhelming force of the national political economy of the gesellschaft; the discovery that assimilation is not inevitable; and the realization that ethnic sodalities and the ghettos persist over long periods of time (sometimes combining deeply embedded internal disharmonies with an outward display of sociocultural solidarity, other times existing as “ghost nations,� or as hollow shells of claimed ethnocultural distinctiveness masking an acculturation that has already eroded whatever elementary forms of existence gave primordial validity to that claim, or, finally, as semiarticualted assertions of a peoplehood that has moved through and “beyond the melting pot� without having been fully dissolved in its fiery cauldron)—ethnography and ethnology could emerge on their own terms.

--Vidich and Lyman, page 56, Handbook of Qualitative Research (2nd Edition)