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Along with this finding, Kahl discovered that almost 45 percent of those men now concentrating in Social Relations had switched from another field...
...since '48, says Kahl, the department has in a sense found itself. Through the past four years of experimentation the field has become better defined, and although its scope has not changed. It is attracting many more people who are vocationally interested in the social sciences and fewer dilletantes...
...expansion of the General Education program, Kahl finds fewer men taking Social Relations la-in their freshman year, thus making it difficult for a man to discover the field before he is farther along in school. In each of the classes of 52, 53, and '54 about 25 percent of those who took la in their freshman year later became concentrators. But the total number of freshmen in la has dropped 33 percent in the last three years...
...study's most revealing findings was the destruction of the notion that Social relations is a "gut" department. Kahl decided that the best way to discover the validity of this notion would be to ask the students whether they got better, the same, or lower marks in courses given by the department as in courses outside the field...
...This would indicate to me," Kahl says, "that the department is not so easy as some people think. And by all indications (in '48 only 18 percent said they had lower grades in Soc. Rel. courses) it is becoming a bit stiffer than before...