Word: kluckhohn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...helped establish Harvard's first separate Department of Psychology. And in 1946. Allport, with Talcott Parsons (sociology), the late Clyde Kluckhohn (anthropology), and Henry Merry (clinical psychology), founded the first inter-disciplinary department in the social sciences in the United States. Harvard's Department of Social Relations. Parsons became its chairman and Allport headed its graduate division...
...other "classics" were dropped from a reading list that now centers almost exclusively around late 19th and 20 the Century commentators. Last year's sophomores learned about the biological concept of culture through reading, in chronological order, Mill, Darwin, Spencer and come. This year the sophomores read only Kluckhohn, treating the concept as a concept rather than as a study in intellectual history...
...their goal of drafting a general theory of human behavior, the social relationists also set out to broaden the intellectual base of the behavioral sciences. The founders of the Department were eminently qualified for these undertakings: Murray, trained in medicine and psychoanalysis, was also an eminent Melville scholar; Kluckhohn had studied classics before he took up cultural anthropology; Allport traced his roots at Harvard back to the old Department of Social Ethics; and Parsons' interests extended beyond orthodox sociology to economics and politics...
...Florence Kluckhohn's Social Relations 138 (Field Methods in Sociological Research) provides a good illustration of this last point. The course attempts to "introduce the student to the practical and theoretical problems of field research"; it requires the student to go out on his own in the greater Boston area and interview representatives of various ethnic groups. The raw material gathered must then be digested and written up in prescribed form. Everyone who has taken the course (and Mrs. Kluckhohn) agrees that it demands a great deal of time and work, but none of the students objects...
...Kluckhohn's reaction to undergraduates typifies a concern for College students that distinguishes Social Relations from most other departments. The Soc Rel staff goes out of its way to make life pleasant for its undergraduate concentrators; it opens all of its facilities to them, offers tutorial to as many as it can, and makes it as easy as possible for them to enter the Honors program. While other departments--particularly English--have rigidly segregated Honors students from non-Honors students and restricted credit tutorial on the basis of rank list standing, Social Relations had opened Honors and tutorial to more...