Word: vogel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nationally, there has been a wide range of views about what sociology should be doing. It's not a tightly knit discipline with very clear research priorities," says Professor of Sociology Ezra F. Vogel...
Some sociologists believe that a strict methodology--with a scientific approach and a great deal of research--is most important, Vogel says, while others like him believe "real life is far too complex to be turned into variables--we cannot really be scientific...
...During the reign of social relations, there was really an effort on the part of the sociologists to be part of larger disciplines," Vogel says...
...problems we've had has to do with the fact that many of us are considered peripheral sociologists--we're interested in sociology, but we're also interested in related disciplines," Vogel comments...
...other Western visitors but had neither scientific nor intelligence information at his disposal, proved to be more negotiable. On Jan. 10, when two U.S. Congressmen, Benjamin Gilman of New York and Tom Lantos of California, visited East Berlin and expressed concern about Shcharansky to East German Lawyer Wolfgang Vogel, who had played a crucial role in previous exchanges, Vogel surprised the Americans by telling them he had been given a "mandate" by the Soviet and East German governments to arrange the release...