Methods and Status of Scientific Research, with Particular Application to the Social Sciences. By Walter Earl Spahr and Rinehart John Swenson. (New York: Harper and Brothers. 1930. Pp. xxi, 533.)

A PROJECT of collaborative research concerning major world trends affecting international relations has been launched this year at the Hoover Institute and Library. This project has been made possible by a three-year grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.1Beneath the original planning for the project lay the conviction born of wartime experience, that a deeper understanding of the dynamics of international relations could be obtained by pooling the contributions of the social sciences and related disciplines and by taking account of practical experience in the international field. The need for new and more penetrating approaches to international relations had been put by Arnold Toynbee in a few challenging words: “There is nothing to prevent our Western Civilization from following historical precedent, if it chooses, by committing social suicide. But we are not doomed to make history repeat itself; it is open to us through our own efforts, to give history, in our case, some new unprecedented turn.” Natural scientists, as well as social scientists are agreed that any “new unprecedented turn” must be sought in deeper understanding of relations among people and among nations.

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Science in the South: Scientific Interests in the Old South . By Thomas Cary Johnson, Jr. viii + 217 p. New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., Inc., For the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, University of Virginia. 1936. Price $2.50.

Science ◽

10.1126/science.88.2274.109.b ◽

1938 ◽

Vol 88 (2274) ◽

pp. 109-110

Author(s):

Charles A. Kofoid

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

New York ◽

Old South ◽

University Of Virginia ◽

The South ◽

The Social

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Methods and Status of Scientific Research with Particular Application to the Social Sciences

Journal of Farm Economics ◽

10.2307/1229781 ◽

1931 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 334

Author(s):

John D. Black ◽

Walter Earl Spahr ◽

Rinehart John Swenson

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Scientific Research ◽

The Social

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IN PURSUIT OF SOCIAL PROGRESS

Economics and Philosophy ◽

10.1017/s0266267118000354 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 443-449

Author(s):

Matthew Adler ◽

Marc Fleurbaey

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

New York ◽

Academic Career ◽

New York Times ◽

Social Progress ◽

University Professors ◽

University Campuses ◽

International Panel ◽

The Social ◽

The World

In 2014, the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote: ‘Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don't matter in today's great debates … I write this in sorrow, for I considered an academic career and deeply admire the wisdom found on university campuses. So, professors, don't cloister yourselves like medieval monks – we need you!’ At that time, a group of academics were working to launch the International Panel on Social Progress, with the aim of preparing a report analysing the current prospects for improving our societies.1 It gathered about 300 researchers from more than 40 countries and from all disciplines of the social sciences, law and philosophy.

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