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considered. As with the USSR it is difficult to estimate how many empirically
experienced and methodologically well trained psychologists exist among those
included under pedagogy; similarly with sociologists under philosophy and
political scientists under law. If one assumes that a third among these belong to
the ‘nomothetic’ disciplines, this would amount to 165 people. These, together
with the 49 listed separately under Psychology, making 214 all told, represent
the entire fully qualified research force at present available in psychology,
sociology and political science. The figures are given in the table above.
27. Adequate numbers of fully trained research workers are likely to take
longer to build up than in the USSR, it being easier for a much larger country to
reach a fist threshold which represents ‘critical mass’. As regards top leader-
ship for present efforts, apart from humanists, there were only five regular
members of the Academy in social science disciplines in 1964. These did not in-
clude an economist or a psychologist. There were only 18 among corresponding
members - three economists and no psychologists. Doubt must be cast on the
feasibility under these conditions of those aspects of complex projects depend-
ing on empirical social science disciplines other than economics.
28. Manpower figures available for Hungary (1966) permit a comparison
between the institutes belonging to or associated with the Academy and the
universities. *
HUNGARY. Number of workers in research institutes (1966)
Philosophy
Economics
History
Law and political science
Pedagogy
Languages and letters
Geography
Arts
Others
Total
Natural (physical and biological)
Medical
Agricultural
Technological
Total
All Research Auxiliaries
employees workers per IOO research
workers
3,051
2,284
2,315
13,001
22,523
28
505
64
30
38
98
35
24
24
846
1,020
367
787
3.269
6,289
SOURCE: ‘A magyar tudomlnyos kutatls helyzete az orszlgos kutathi statisztika 1966.
&vi adatai tiikrkben,’ Tudomdnyszervezisi Tdjikoztatd 8 (I), January, 1968, p. 31.
* Special attention has been paid to science statistics in Hungary; cf. A. SZALAI,
‘Statistics, Sociology and Economics of Research in Hungary,’ Social Science Znforma-
tion 5 (4), 1966, PP. 57-69.
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65
16
70
22
4
26
9
9
45