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...meeting yesterday afternoon with Alex Inkeles and Ezra F. Vogel, professors of Social Relations, a group of graduate students in sociology disagreed sharply with a proposal for the creation of an autonomous sociology department...
During the two-and-a-half-hour meeting. Vogel fielded questions and opinions concerning the split in Soc Rel. Students claimed that the meeting was "patronizing" and "condescending" to them in the light of last Wednesday's decision by Faculty sociologists to make plans for the creation of an independent department...
...frontiers in sociology." Vogel said, "now seem to be in the consideration of social problems and public policy." Sociologists want more intellectual contacts with economists, political scientists, and historians, butthe present interdisciplinary organization inhibits such arrangements. Meanwhile, psychologists and anthropologists in the Soc Rel department have been able to establish outside contacts through the autonomous departments of their disciplines...
...Vogel added that it is not clear at this point how the programs of the present department will be affected by the creation of a new department. He said that this question, among others, will be considered by the new sociology committee...
Besides the unappointed sociology committee, another committee has been formed to investigate the possible subdivision of the department. Appointed at the request of department chairman Roger W. Brown, professor of Social Psychology, the committee consists of four faculty members and two graduate students. Both Vogel and Eaglesfield are members of the committee. Its chairman, B. Irven Devore. associate professor of Anthropology, said the committee will have its first meeting this Wednesday...