Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second number they criticized the uni-("in the academy, grades, fellowships, appoint-versities for encouraging responsibility to things ments; in the world, wealth, social standing, etc.") which they felt to be external. They said that such responsibility "is in fact the irresponsibility of the individual to himself." They were not denying corporate responsibility, but emphasizing that it "can only exist meaningfully as the organization of each human's responsibility towards his own dignity...
When the Department of Social Relations was founded at the end of the war, the laboratory space for the behavioral sciences had to be drastically redistributed. The Psychological Laboratory gave up its space in Emerson and Boylston Halls and moved to the western end of the Memorial basement, displacing part of the Naval ROTC facilities. All Psychology Department experiments, if not all psychological experiments, were now centralized in one place...
...Social Relations 1, at present a half-year course, will be expanded to a full-year course and will be required of all concentrators...
...entirely new half-year course in methods and problems of Social Relations research will be required of all concentrators. It is probably intended for the latter half of the junior year. The course will have both lectures and sections...
Contrary to usual practice, however, the sections will be conducted by full-fledged Department members, instead of section men. The problems studied will come from all branches of Social Relations...