Science: What Are We Doing?

Since the first World War, determined efforts have been made by several U. S. universities—notably Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Michigan, Minnesota, Stanford —to put social investigation on a scientific basis. In 1929 the University of Chicago dedicated a new building, financed mainly by the Rockefeller Foundation and designed to house Chicago's Division of Social Sciences. Last week social scientists from all over the U. S. assembled there to celebrate its tenth anniversary and take stock of their work. They did not pile up detailed reports of social research. They discussed techniques, viewpoints, "frames of...