<prompt> Translate the following text to SwahiliOnce considered a model of social scientific method and a source of broad insights into the way people live, the discipline had become directionless, intellectually moribund, and hopelessly overspecialized, with departments across the country scaling back or disappearing altogether.  <response>: Wakati mmoja ilichukuliwa kama mfano wa mbinu ya kisayansi ya kijamii na chanzo cha ufahamu mpana juu ya jinsi watu wanavyoishi, taaluma hiyo ilikuwa imekuwa bila mwelekeo, ikikufa kiakili, na isiyo na matumaini ya utaalam, na idara kote nchini zikipungua au kutoweka kabisa. 