Reminiscences of Talcott Parsons : oral history, 1967
Abstract
Initial involvement with Carnegie Corporation during establishment of Depart of Social Relations at Harvard University; 1944-1945; grants for Center for Behavioral Science; Ford Foundation grants; establishment of Russian Research Center, 1948; controversy surrounding Clyde Kluckhohn and Air Force consultantship; TOWARDS A GENERAL THEORY OF ACTION, 1951; grants for individual work from Carnegie an d Ford Foundation, 1952-1967; thoughts on the Social Science Research Council (SSRC); Harvard under James Bryant Conant and Paul Herman Buck; Carnegie and its grantmaking policies. Impressions of Clyde Kluckhohn, Paul Herman Buck, Samuel A. Stouffer, Charles Dollard.
Sociology--Study and teaching; Sociologists; Endowment of research; Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979; Kluckhohn, Clyde, 1905-1960; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Harvard University. Department of Social Relations; Harvard University. Russian Research Center