Comments on Thomas Scheff's 'A New Vision of Sociology.' (response to Thomas J. Scheff in this issue, p. 529)

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Thomas Scheff's presidential address presents a distinct overview of several issues that contemporary social science research must deal with. The quantitative and qualitative research proposed by Scheff will proved to be accurate and useful. The problem however, lies on the proper selection of appropriate type of qualitative method that must be utilized in coding and analyzing the data gathered.

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Comment on Thomas J. Scheff's presidential address

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Scheff made a generalization and seemingly ambiguous picture of the state of contemporary American Sociology. Previous sociological research are considered noncumulative which involves very few variables which is the opposite of what is being required by a complex social life. This and other factors have contributed to the present status of sociology as compared with the other academic fields.

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Comment on presidential address of Thomas J. Scheff to PSA

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Thomas J. Scheff's presidential address possesses quite a number of valid and reasonable sociological perspectives but there is no more need for such superfluous classifications and programmatic statements. What the contemporary society needs is the proper focusing of social issues and phenomena to be able to provide better insights and action plan.

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