Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speakers read formal papers in the mornings, in the afternoons the scientists gathered at "round tables" for informal discussion. Some of these sessions grew so heated that they finished in the hall outside the conference room. From the sidelines University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins rather tartly reminded the delegates that in 1929 the world had a much greater sense of social well-being than it has today. Henry Bruere, onetime U. of C. social worker, now president of Manhattan's big Bowery Savings, pointed out that the first time social scientists really got their teeth...
Trends. Almost everyone thinks he knows what a trend is, but to a sociologist a trend is a numerical series showing change in a more or less constant direction. The University of Chicago's tall, affable William Fielding Ogburn has made a special study of trends. He once headed a detachment of the National Resources Committee which, on the basis of trend analysis, listed 13 technologies due for a booming industrial future (TIME, July 26, 1937). Such predictions are made possible by extending (or, in sociological jargon, "extrapolating") into the future the trend line as charted...
...City. Almost since the year of the university's founding (1857) University of Chicago social scientists have watched Chicago grow from a Midwestern town to a sprawling metropolis. They have studied numerous facets of the city -real estate, money markets, stock trading, light & power, men's clothing, furniture, bakeries, pottery, industrial location, voting habits, youth delinquency, Negro families, etc. Perhaps Chicago has not yet profited much from this scrutiny, but it may do so eventually,* and so may many another city...
Small, round-faced Dr. Louis Wirth, University of Chicago sociologist, declared that urbanism-the big city problem-enters into almost every major problem of modern society. "Our cultures are still many, but our civilization is one. The city is the symbol of that civilization. We will either master this ominously complicated entity or perish under...
...social sciences are sociology, economics and political science; part of psychology (attitudes, traits, abilities, collective behavior) and cultural (as distinguished from physical) anthropology. They overflow the bounds of science into law, history, education, linguistics. *Writing on the racetrack information racket last week, Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler observed: "Chicago has been so rotten for years that the town may seem to be abandoned and utterly without any will to turn square, but, for the first time in the modern history of the city, there are some stirrings of conscience and civic decency...