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Several members of the Soc Rel faculty feel that the increasing number and complexity of the proposals will make any final decisions at today's meeting unlikely...
...meeting of the Soc Rel faculty last week, Harrison C. White, professor of Sociology and acting chairman of the department, and George C. Homans, professor of Sociology, proposed that Social Psychology be abolished as an independent entity after the creation of an autonomous Sociology department...
White's plan, developed with George C. Homans, a professor of Sociology, calls for the abolition of the present Soc Rel Department-which includes sociology, social anthropology, and social, personality, and developmental psychology. Under the plan, the Soc Rel faculty would relocate in the existing Anthropology or Psychology departments or in the new Sociology Department...
These three departments would be combined into a Behavior and Institutions Center, which would replace the Center for the Behavioral Sciences at William James Hall. Thus the new center, according to the Homans-White plan, would include the branches of anthropology and psychology presently separate from the Soc Rel Department. Instructional resources would be administered by a joint committee of head tutors from cache of the constituent departments...
Various groups in the Soc Rel department will continue discussing the proposals next week. No date has been set for a final decision on the issue...