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Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations

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Famed sociologist Talcott Parsons led some of the most renowned social scientists of the twentieth century to establish a new department for an interdisciplinary science at Harvard. This is a fascinating instructive tale of hubris, ego, and academic politics overlaid on Parsons's obsessive quest for an all-encompassing theory of social behavior.

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Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations 2022, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781538168295

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Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations 2022, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781538168288

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