Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first will be a complete record, including the texts of the principal speeches. Three other volumes will record the three collaborative symposia held as a part of the Tercentenary Conference, namely "Independence, Convergence, and Borrowing in Institution, Thought, and Art," "Authority and the Individual," and "Factors Determining Human Behavior." The individual papers in the physical sciences and biology will be published by the authors through their own channels, it being felt that such papers would be more useful to Scholars if published in the usual technical journals. The four volumes to be published by the University will be edited...
Malinowski, professor of Anthropology at the University of London and one of the world's best known anthorities in the field, was a participant in the Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Sciences, speaking on "Culture as a Department of Human Behavior." In his discussion, Dr. Walinowski urged the use of "scientific determinism" in the study...
...Tercentenary Conference a group of the leading scholars present were asked their opinions concerning the establishment of a "supreme court of organized knowledge" as a future guide to human behavior. Just what form such an organization would take is not clear even to the professors, but in general it would be a periodic conference of the world's great minds, who through various means would dominate the thought of the layman and prick the bubbles of myth which keep dictators in power...
...Functionalism" is a name which anthropologists immediately connect with Bronisiaw Malinowski, anthropologist of the University of London, the last speaker of this symposium, whose address was on the subject of "Culture as a Determinant of Behavior." The term represents a concept of a many-sided functioning as a unit, with all its customs and traditions interrelated. Malinowski observed just such a functional society during a very close study of the Trobriand Indians of Melanesia, and by giving bird's eye views of the culture of the Masal tribes of Africa, the Chagga, also of Africa, the Esquimaux, and the Trobrianders...
...when a science editor tried to out argue someone who was explaining a paper that he had spent a good part of his life studying. Often offhand remarks by reporters would enliven the sessions. Thus when one interpreter was discussing a paper in the symposium on "Factors Determining Human Behavior," one reporter compared a child's actions under certain circumstances to a cat who'd been fed a hot oyster at which he'd pawed in anger after the bivalve had burnt him. "Do you feed your cat hot oysters asked someone. "Why yes," answered the helpful one, "he wanted...