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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.
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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
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Patrick L. Schmidt is an attorney and executive with diverse experience in Latin America and the Caribbean in the areas of renewable energy, finance, real estate, tourism, and infrastructure. He is the author of journal articles and commentary on international law and foreign policy issues including U.S. foreign aid, international human rights, internally displaced persons, and renewable energy in the Caribbean. Schmidt attended Harvard University as an undergraduate where he wrote on the topic of Harvard's Department of Social Relations in his 1978 senior honors thesis in Harvard's Department of Psychology and Social Relations, the successor to the Department of Social Relations. As part of his research, he interviewed 26 of the faculty members who played a role in the department's history, including founders Talcott Parsons and Henry Murray, and critics in the Psychology Department, such as B.F. Skinner, who closely observed the rise and fall of Social Relations.
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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 Parson...
