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...Social Relations Department includes, besides sociology, the social branches of psychology and anthropology. When the present Soc Rel department was created in 1946, the Department of Sociology was abolished, white the physical branches of the other disciplines remained independent departments...
Vogel explained that many sociologists in the Soc Rel faculty want to form their own department now for a number of reasons...
Under the Soc Rel department, they say they have had no cohesive intellectual community, and sociology as a discipline has been relatively weak in comparison with departments at large universities like Columbia and Berkeley. The sociologists feel that a separate department would facilitate growth of a community of sociologists and of the discipline itself...
...frontiers in sociology." Vogel said, "now seem to be in the consideration of social problems and public policy." Sociologists want more intellectual contacts with economists, political scientists, and historians, butthe present interdisciplinary organization inhibits such arrangements. Meanwhile, psychologists and anthropologists in the Soc Rel department have been able to establish outside contacts through the autonomous departments of their disciplines...
...Rel department has become much more difficult to administer because of recent increases in undergraduate and graduate enrollment and the number of research staff. Undergraduate enrollment alone has doubled in the last six years and is now over 650 students...