California State University Long Beach - Prospector Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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Division of Social Science integrated part of other disciplines. No social science area becomes a valid science until it applies the methods and attitudes of science to the practical understanding and solving of man's problems arising in an ever-increasing tempo of cultural change. Therefore, the real objectives of the social scientist appear to be defined, as the developing of creative objective leadership in all aspects of his economic, political, and social endeavors. Modem man must learn in our generation to adapt to a rapidly changing culture and live to- gether cooperatively or face social disin- tegration and death. I do not advocate in any way the superior importance of the social sciences over the physical sciences. I do, however, advocate that we in the social sciences must keep up with technological change and solve the rapidly emerging problems of indi- vidual and institutional adjustment in our contemporary culture. The question of “Direction for the Social Sciences is a moot topic in academic and lay circles. But before we can adequately deal with this direction, we must care- fully define what is meant by the term social science. In practice, most academicians conceive of social science as a collective term en- compassing specific areas of specializa- tion, such as anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, and sociology. Historically, these specific areas have been conceived as independent disci- plines around which walls have often been built, defending an attitude of sovereign segmentation. In reality, however, the various social sci- ences are only perspectives of a much greater whole, which is defined as so- ciety. No single discipline can be useful in isolation. Each subject field gains func- tional utility only when considered as an DR. CARL E. GREGORY, Chairman 18

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- This year, student life loomed up large in ALL DIRECTIONS, Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior . . . doctor, lawyer, merchant, chiof . . . hero, at LBSC, time itself was the only thief. BUSY DAYS steal by with un- suspecting rapidity» fall midtGrms merge be- fore we know it into Christmas» and spring finals pile up on top of Easter. NEW FACES smile once or twice in strange classrooms, and then goodbyes are in order. Slow-and- fast . . . beat-and-pause . . . tick-and-tock . . . time moves on, magnified only by ANTICIPATION and by MEMORY!

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Social Science Faculty Irving F. Ahlquist, Ph.D. History Edna H. Barbour, Ph.D. Business Education David Dressier, Ph.D. Sociology Jesse B. Allen, Ph.D. Marketing Sheldon D. Ericksen, Ph.D. Geography Ethel E. Ewing,Ph.D. Anthropology Nicholas P. Hardeman, Ph.D. History William E. Hartman, Ph.D. Sociology Leroy Hardy, Ph.D. Political Science Robert A. Konnelly, Ph.D. Geography Howard E. Kimball, M.A. History George W. Korber, Ph.D. Sociology James C. Lien, Ph.D. Political Science Ryland R. Madison, Ph.D. Social Science Nick Massaro, Ph.D. Sociology Halvor G. Melom, Ph.D. History Don M. Muchmore, B.A. Political Science and Publications Manager Vernon A. Metzger, M.B.A. Business Donald W. Peters, Ph.D. History Petor F. Palmer, Ph.D. Economics 19