Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations

By Patrick L. Schmidt

Book Overview

Famed sociologist Talcott Parsons led some of the most renowned social scientists of the twentieth century to establish a new department for an interdisciplinary science at Harvard. This is a fascinating instructive tale of hubris, ego, and academic politics overlaid on Parsons's obsessive quest for an all-encompassing theory of social behavior.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538168294
• ISBN13: 9781538168295
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"