Word: departmentalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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If sociology becomes an independent department, graduate students presently enrolled will be allowed to conclude their degree programs as they started them. But teaching fellows will be limited in their choices.
"As a teaching fellow in Soc Rel." said one student "you could switch from one discipline to another. Switching from one department to another is not as easy."
In addition, students said that the inter disciplinary approach which made Harvard's Soc Rel Department so attractive to them will be "dismantled."
Vogel said that an independent department would lead to "more of a sense of community among sociologists, which we feel has been missing."
At present sociology shares the resources of one department with the "social" branches of psychology and anthropology, each of whose physical branches exists as an autonomous department. Since finances and academic appointments are allocated to Soc Rel as if it were a single, unified discipline. Vogel contends that sociology is...