Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than half the College concentrates in the Social Sciences; just over one quarter of the permanent members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences teaches in the Social Sciences...
...Social Sciences suffers a heavier loss than either the Natural Sciences or the Humanities. For in addition to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which draws on all three fields, the Social Sciences surrenders an enormous amount of energy to the Graduate School of Public Administration. The Natural Sciences gains more from the graduate schools than it loses, for the schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine, and Public Health provide a large number of top-level instructors for limited use in advanced and specialized courses...
...excellent example of this policy in action is the social relations field. The Social Relations Department was established after the war to include the now extinct Sociology Department and portions of the Anthropology and Psychology Departments. Before the war, these three departments together averaged 237 concentrators, or 6.6 percent of all concentrators. In the last three years, the social relations field has averaged 547 concentrators a year, 13.2 percent of the present total--exactly double the pre-war figure...
...field had 12 permanent appointees and the fractional services of nine or ten others. The present field has 15 permanent appointments. It will get has no more within the forseeable future because the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is not convinced "the Social Relations boom" is permanent...
...social relations field maintains its high number of concentrators, it can do so only at the expense of other departments, since the enrollment of the College has been fixed by administrative decree. But it will not increase its allotment of permanent appointments at the expense of other departments. It will have to wait for new money, in the form of either endowed chairs or gifts to the University for unrestricted purposes...