Word: socials
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such proceedings suggest that the individual who voluntarily offers himself as a guinea pig for the social science pollster be precisely advised, at all times, of the risk he assumes. All realistic persons know that we live in an age of Loyalty Commissions and Congressional Investigations: letter carriers are fired for subscribing to "New Masses" and Navy Yard workers are dismissed for possessing Howard Fast's "Freedom Road." Any "scientist" who would investigate people's political, social, sexual, or religious attitudes and values owes a duty to the privacy and dignity of the people he questions. That duty...
Letters of apology were sent yesterday by Professor Gordon W. Allport, chairman of the Social Relations Department, to several hundred recipients of a poll taken by an undergraduate. The polls were later ordered to be burned...
Although the names of those polled were anonymous to the student, the Social Relations Department recognized that this method could lead to abuse of their right to secrecy if the poll got into the wrong hands...
...Social Sciences Have Responsibility...
...said that Social Science polls have a responsibility to people in a democracy which must never be abused. Allport added, however, that sometimes anonymity must be qualified. This is particularly necessary where the same person must be polled at separate intervals, and his two sets of answers correlated...