Word: hoffmann
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Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government and chairman of the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, said last night that the decision of the Faculty not to require a vote on continuing Social Studies might be interpreted as giving the Committee on Degrees a new degree of flexibility...
There may be an increase in the staff of the program next year. Hoffmann said, and this would be used first to provide more individual attention for students, and later to expand the program slightly. Any increase in the number of students selected will be very small be added...
...status of the program, Hoffmann said, will make it more attractive to members of the departments from which it drawn. He said he has been "delighted with the number of volunteers for next year's staff." In its early years, Social Studies had to search for people to fill its staff...
...departmental reform had been practical, Hoffmann would still have launched the new program. For he sought more than the broadening of disciplines. As the first pamphlet on Social Studies made clear, "the program does not aim at establishing fields of concentration broader than those provided by the departments but tries on the contrary to make possible intensive work in important and separate areas." Hoffmann was not interested simply in training economists who had read Freud or sociologists fascinated by Hobbes. Rather he wished students to approach concrete social problems as entities in themselves, and to be willing and Hoffmann believed...
...early Program reflected Hoffmann's point of view. Entering sophomores were expected already to have chosen a broadly conceived "problem" that would eventually flower into a thesis topic. Course requirements for concentration were liberal on paper, even more liberal in practice, and junior tutorial centred around problem area (e.g. "industrial societies") rather than methodological or disciplinary themes. To give all the students a common core of knowledge, however, the Committee on Social studies provided a sophomore tutorial covering the "writings of leading social scientists of the past" and "the problems of method common to the social sciences...