Word: social
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fainsod Committee recommended that Faculty Council membership be divided equally among the Faculty's three areas-Humanities. Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences-and that members serve three-year terms...
LIKE MOST literature that has a complaining tone, women's liberation magazines don't appeal strongly, at first, to anyone who can't join in the complaint. Especially when the complaint is. "We women are unhappy with our sexual and social role," most readers tend to make a detour around this literature, if they don't jeer and throw tomatoes...
...most controversial issues around Harvard this fall has been the Cambridge Project. The Project, which uses computers here and at M.I.T. for social and behavioral science research, was funded with $15 million by the Defense Department for the current fiscal year, and Defense has indicated that it will give it an additional $61 million over the next four years...
...social science research which the Defense Department has funded this decade has not been uniquely related to its own needs. The Defense Department is concerned with such matters as training, assignment, organization, assessment of personnel, incentives, and skill development- just like any large organization. We're living in a rather closely interrelated world with the Defense Department, and what we know of their plans lies almost entirely in these areas...
...which computer technology is developing puts very serious constraints on us: its development in the next few years may have a very profound effect for a rather long future. Only the very active participation of social scientists right now will succeed in directing the development of computer technology in ways advantageous...