Word: brane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this extraordinary thoughtful little essay, Mr. Brane holds that in constructing a "political science" several fundamental preliminary steps are necessary: the scope of the field of inquiry must be delimited, a "unifying concept" based on the simplest and most universal phenomenon observed within the field must be agreed on, and a "sequential" relationship among the manifold data must be established...
...political institutions in the west. "Politics" not only belong to universal history, but also are involved in human relations which have little or nothing to do with the structure of government. What, then, is the essential, pervasive, irreducible characteristic in this thing we call "politics"--the unifying concept? Mr. Brane says it is social control--the control of power exercised by man over man. Few will quarrel with this choice in general, although some doubt whether "power" adequately expresses the "political" relations of men, and all will readily admit that since it is a phenomenon perceptible not in itself...
Finally, Mr. Brane offers a "sequential" scheme of the material of politics for purposes of systematic investigation. The analysis is defective, in that when Mr. Brane introduces it, he is still obsessed by the primacy of the "state" as the concern of political science, and he fails to revise it in the light of his later extension of the scope of the subject. Still, in its restricted field, the scheme is logical and sufficient. In its broad outlines (omitting the elaborate sub-groupings), it comprises five basic elements: the state, an institution of power for social control; law, the regulation...
UNIVERSITY HARVARD COLUMBIA Foil Kerlin Marson Hurd Roth Yatsevitch Celeste McGowan Epee Moran Driscoll Beard, Jr. Skrobisch Dyer abre Lawson Craf Walker, Jr. Brane FRESHMAN HARVARD ANDOVER Ackerman Macomber Miller Snellings Hanan Lowe Holden...