The issues that shape and inform the discourse of sociology are simultaneously the issues with which the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious lens of the theorist, the instructor, the student, and the academic environment are laden, This article utilizes the case study method to review and consider the impact and implications of academic milieu on the myriad issues with which higher education and the discipline of sociology, as well as its agents and their neophytes, are confronted. Each agent and neophyte attempt to analyze the social reality in which it exists.