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Brief's anonymous analysis was written without Sorokin's knowledge, as was the Chinese translation which he received last week from Hong Kong. His work has now been translated into 36 different languages, "more than any other sociologist," he said, "including Mr. Toynbee...
...words) must comply with the requirements of Catholic principles and at the same time must be effective from a positive scientific point of view." Winners will be chosen before July 1957 by a 16-man jury including Washington's Monsignor John O'Grady, Baltimore Sociologist William Gibbons, Oxford Economist Colin Clark...
...University of Chicago had some words to say about the social sciences: "There are too many people who enter the field with a readymade conclusion obtained from their local household gods rather than their laboratories, and proceed to gather facts and footnotes to substantiate it ... There is the sociologist who wants a better society of a certain kind . . . [the] social scientist of a minority group who gathers data about the difficulties of other minority groups ... the second-generation-immigrant historian who writes of the woes of the immigrant in America . . . Now the problems that underlie these concerns are important...
...true, as Mark Twain once remarked, that a community can be known by the funerals it holds, then The History of American Funeral Directing, by Sociologist Robert W. Habenstein and Historian William M. Lamers, may reveal more about America than many Americans want to know. Though the style of the authors is as dry as Aristotle's ashes, their history of the social, commercial, sanitary, sexual, artistic and religious relations between the living and the dead has a great and gruesome fascination...
...University of Oslo and later at the University of Wisconsin-Dr. Gilbert Geis and William Simenson returned to old scenes of study when they undertook some field work in sociology. Last week, having already contrasted Oslo and Wisconsin university students in study habits, vocational plans and other areas, Sociologist Geis and Simenson got around to the subject...