Patrick L. Schmidt

Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science

The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Famed sociologist Talcott Parsons led some of the most renowned social scientists of the twentieth century to establish a new department for an interdisciplinary science at Harvard. This is a fascinating instructive tale of hubris, ego, and academic politics overlaid on Parsons's obsessive quest for an all-encompassing theory of social behavior.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781538168295
• ISBN-10: 1538168294
• Artikelnr.: 63433231

Autorenporträt

By Patrick L. Schmidt

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1Freud Arrives at Harvard: Disrupting the Disciplines
Chapter 2Word War II Changes Everything: Interdisciplinary Research Emerges
Chapter 3The Founding of the Department of Social Relations: A Determined
Dean Acts
Chapter 4The First Five Years: A Golden Age but Integration Proves Elusive
Chapter 5The 1950s: A Decade of Disunity and Disappointment
Chapter 6The 1960s: Drugs and Departmental Drift
Chapter 7The Final Unraveling: Soc Rel 148-149 Disrupts and Sociology
Departs
Chapter 8Conclusion and Summary
Index