Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Justice Department has threatened to use force to keep demonstrators off Pennsylvania Avenue during the massive anti-war march in Washington on November 15.
On the other hand, supporters of the split point out that the nature of the department's interdisciplinary approach is unfavorable to other fields of learning. "Economists, political scientists, and historians take a very dim view of working with psychologists," explained Alex Inkeles, professor of Social Relations. "The stronger ties...
Proponents of the present arrangement point out that the department was founded in the wake of the postwar antagonism between the "social" and "physical" branches in psychology and anthropology.
Yet only at Harvard did these pressures lead to the creation of a new "social" department that did away with sociology as an independent discipline.
Professor Talcott Parsons, one of the founders of the department and its chairman for ten years, said, "My own feeling is that the present arrangement is not totally sacred."