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| Donald Winch taught me on the Concepts, Methods and Values in the Social Sciences course at Sussex University in 1967-68. It was not until much later that I realised the intellectual power on offer. | Donald Winch taught me on the Concepts, Methods and Values in the Social Sciences course at Sussex University in 1967-68. It was not until much later that I realised the intellectual power on offer. |
| He certainly was not a man who cultivated student popularity, but he was miles ahead of the game in the way he put out key concepts and subjected them to their historical meaning. | He certainly was not a man who cultivated student popularity, but he was miles ahead of the game in the way he put out key concepts and subjected them to their historical meaning. |
| The “market” was one of those ideas which, for student lefties like ourselves, was tantamount to Sussex treason. But Winchie kept going and the result was a liberation from all those slabs of (mainly) American social science transactions that seemed not to resemble anything or anyone, anywhere. | The “market” was one of those ideas which, for student lefties like ourselves, was tantamount to Sussex treason. But Winchie kept going and the result was a liberation from all those slabs of (mainly) American social science transactions that seemed not to resemble anything or anyone, anywhere. |
| At last, the idea of a “science” of the “social” was up for discussion. I remember a particularly passionate seminar during which he put to us the idea of not releasing findings that could be damaging to (what were then called) race relations. | At last, the idea of a “science” of the “social” was up for discussion. I remember a particularly passionate seminar during which he put to us the idea of not releasing findings that could be damaging to (what were then called) race relations. |
| Sussex was a very special place in those days not because of its architecture, or its flash reputation, but because it was capable of being shaped by hard reasoners such as Donald Winch. | Sussex was a very special place in those days not because of its architecture, or its flash reputation, but because it was capable of being shaped by hard reasoners such as Donald Winch. |
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