University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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anthropologist Robert Redheld, and sociologist W. Lloyd Warner, whose research projects have delved deeply into the American social system. Dr. Frank H. Knight given the high-sounding title Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the Social Sciencest is recognized as one of the worldts most brilliant economists. Among the members of the Department of Educa- tion is Dr. Bruno Bettelheim, a professor of educa- tional Psychology and principal of the Sonia Shank- man Orthogenic School. Sociologist David Riesman has become recog- nized tboth in most esoteric circles and the popular presst as a penetrating analyst of the American character as well as a scholar of the hecumenicalh sort studying football, movies, and televisionl Hans J. Morgenthau and Herman Finer are both weIl-known political scientists. The Rise of the British Coal Industry, The United States and Civit- ization, and The Universities Look for Unity are, all three, books by John Ulric Nef, who is also chairman of the Committee on Social Thought. A conference on Educating the Gifted Child was held in Judd Hall during the Autumn Quartet. 400 administrators and educators were present to hear speeches on the problem and participate in discussions. Concluding the conference was an ad- dress entitled hWhy the New Concern for Educa- ting the Gifted? delivered by Clarence Faust, president of the Fund for the Advancement of Edu- cation. 26

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Social Sciences Dean of the Social Sciences, Chauncey Harris It has been said that a characreristic of an age of turmoil is an extensive quantity of social analysis. In this age, surely one of turmoil, there has been a development of serious social thinking, coupled with the insight-research method of the sciences, producing a body of intellectual investigation ap- proximated by the term social science. The So- cial Sciences Division of the University is concerned generally with problems of the nature of the hu- man being, his ideas and institutions, the complex relationships between him and his fellow human beings, and the nature and extent of his action and reaction to the world. The social sciences were, it may be said, many before they were one. Certain of them, such as his- tory and political science, are in some ways as old as civilization; others, such as socioiogy and psy- chology, are comparatively new pursuits. Many of these sciences are not yet crystallized suihciently to place them in any one department of knowledge, as is evidenced by the facts that the Social Science Division shares the study of hismry with the Hu- manities and the study of psychology with the Bio- logical Sciences. At a considerable advanced level in the Division one finds interdepartmental committees 0n Human Development, International Relations, and Far Eastern Civilization iwith the Humanities Divi- sionJ Among the personnel of the Division of the So- cial Sciences there is a constellation of some of the most famous thinkers of modern times. There are 25

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