Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lines defining the relationship of the social sciences have often changed, sometimes reacting to national currents and sometimes shaping them. Energetic personalities conflicting with rigid political alliances have brought down academic departments, and have made the development of the study of psychology a telling case study of human behavior...
World War II had brought together scholars interested in many elements of human behavior. Their contributions to mobilizing the country's young men and maintaining the nation's enthusiasm for its effort were appreciated by those involved and academics were impressed by the potential benefits of interdisciplinary study. In 1946, the country, or at least Harvard, had caught up to Parson's insurgents. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences gave the go-ahead for a new department calling it Social Relations...
Professor Robert F. Bales, who retired from teaching this semester, was a member of Soc Rel and says the new department was a "great success," luring the best minds in human behavior to Cambridge. Riesman, who also served in Soc Rel, agrees it was a "national magnet." "It brought a great faculty, superb graduate students and it was very attractive to undergraduates," he says. According to Bales, Soc Rel's undergraduate concentrators had interests similar to those who currently pursue degrees in Social Studies...
...arguing that welfare recipients have not fulfilled their responsibilities as citizens. Lawrence Mead, professor of politics at New York University, makes such a case in his new book, Beyond Entitlement: The Social Obligations of Citizenship (Free Press; $19.95). His most controversial theme: the poor need to have standards of behavior set for them. "We have to say, 'You have a real obligation we're not going to let you get away from,' " says Mead. Workfare, he maintains, can give poor people the discipline he feels they lack. Mead advocates expanding workfare programs to include mothers with children above age three...
...step, though understandably clouded in secrecy, differed markedly from the way Harvard handled previous allegations of sexual harassment, when it refused to discuss the matter publicly. This time, Harvard proved its willingness not to tolerate such behavior by securing Hibbs's resignation...