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staff are full-time on research those in teaching establishments for the most part
do not give more than 20 % of their time to research (though this is not so true
in specialized higher schools such as the Higher School of Economics at Poz-
nan).
31. Poland appears to be exceptional in Eastern Europe in the comparative
strength of sociology. Psychology may be said to have made a first appearance,
though its representation in the Academy is weak. The small scale of specialized
fields such as linguistics and social anthropology is understandable; but surpris-
ing is the fragile state of demography. A first Academy Centre was only in
process of organization in 1965. It wil be difficult to develop adequate ‘informa-
tion de base’ without it. Political science does not appear as an independent
discipline, remaining, as is usual in Eastern Europe, a part of legal studies.
Nevertheless, the overall capability to undertake complex projects of the type
sponsored by the Departznent of Social Sciences of the Academy is greater in
the immediate future than in a country such as Czechoslovakia. Nevertheless,
it is limited, and the psychological input can be no more than marginal.
32. There is detailed information for 1965 on the various Academy establish-
ment concerned with the social sciences. This is given in the following table.
Only four units had 20 or more research workers, all in the sociology - social
anthropology - economics area. These facts may serve to correct the impression
that all Academy Institutes in Eastern European countries are large. Outside
the Soviet Union most of them are not, at least in the social sciences, though
they do coordinate the work of other establishments in complex projects.
POLAND. Academy social science establishments (1965)
Discipline Description No. of workers
Demography
Linguistics
Psychology
Social anthropology
Sociology
Economics
Total
A first centre being organized
Warsaw Institute
Cracow Institute
Psychometry Laboratory
Social Psychology Laboratory
Institute of Hygiene
Institute of Material Culture
Sociological Section of Institute
of Philosophy and Sociology
Laboratory on Industrial Regions
Laboratory on Social and Cultural
Problems of Contemporary Africa
Institute for Economic Research
Laboratory for General Problems of
Organization of Work (Praxiology)
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I1
7
3
2
20
60
21
6
21
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33. In Poland the scatter of research effort was still in 1965 very great. The
600 economists in the universities and other higher schools were in 106 different
establishments. The dispersion in Yugoslavia was on a similar s~ale.~g In