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Harvard Department of Social Relations

Index Harvard Department of Social Relations

The Department of Social Relations for Interdisciplinary Social Science Studies, more commonly known as the "Department of Social Relations", was an interdisciplinary collaboration among three of the social science departments at Harvard University (anthropology, psychology, and sociology) beginning in 1946. [1]

48 relations: Anthropology, Barbara Rogoff, Barrington Moore Jr., Barry Wellman, Beatrice Blyth Whiting, Bertram Cohler, Charles Tilly, Clifford Geertz, Clyde Kluckhohn, David Riesman, Edward E. Jones, Edward Laumann, Edward Shils, Eleanor Maccoby, Evon Z. Vogt, George C. Homans, Gordon Allport, Harold Garfinkel, Harrison White, Harvard University, Henry Murray, Janellen Huttenlocher, Jean Lipman-Blumen, Jerome Bruner, John Whiting (anthropologist), Leon Kamin, Marc Swartz, Mark Granovetter, Melvin Ember, Michelle Rosaldo, Mormons, Nathan Kogan, Navajo, Neil Smelser, Psychology, Renato Rosaldo, Richard Price (American anthropologist), Richard Shweder, Robert Neelly Bellah, Robert W. White (psychologist), Roger Brown (psychologist), Roy D'Andrade, Seymour Martin Lipset, Social relation, Sociology, Stanley Milgram, Talcott Parsons, Zuni.

Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present.

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Barbara Rogoff

Barbara Rogoff is an educator whose interests lie in understanding and communicating the different learning thrusts between cultures, especially within her book The Cultural Nature of Human Development (2003).

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Barrington Moore Jr.

Barrington Moore Jr. (12 May 1913 – 16 October 2005) was an American political sociologist, and the son of forester Barrington Moore.

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Barry Wellman

Barry Wellman, FRSC (born 1942) is a Canadian-American sociologist and is the co-director of the Toronto-based international NetLab Network.

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Beatrice Blyth Whiting

Beatrice Blyth Whiting (14 April 1914, New York City – 29 September 2003, Cambridge, Massachusetts), was an American anthropologist specializing in the comparative study of child development.

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Bertram Cohler

Bertram Joseph Cohler (3 December 1938 – 9 May 2012) was an American psychologist, psychoanalyst, and educator primarily associated with the University of Chicago, the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Harvard University.

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Charles Tilly

Charles Tilly (May 27, 1929 – April 29, 2008) was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian who wrote on the relationship between politics and society.

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Clifford Geertz

Clifford James Geertz (August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered "for three decades...the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." He served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

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Clyde Kluckhohn

Clyde Kluckhohn (January 11, 1905, Le Mars, Iowa – July 28, 1960, near Santa Fe, New Mexico), was an American anthropologist and social theorist, best known for his long-term ethnographic work among the Navajo and his contributions to the development of theory of culture within American anthropology.

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David Riesman

David Riesman (September 22, 1909 – May 10, 2002) was a sociologist, educator, and best-selling commentator on American society.

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Edward E. Jones

Edward Ellsworth "Ned" Jones (August 11, 1926 – July 30, 1993) was an influential social psychologist, he is known as father of Ingratiation due to his major works in the area.

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Edward Laumann

Edward Otto Laumann (born August 31, 1938) is an American sociologist.

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Edward Shils

Edward Shils (1 June or July 1910 – 23 January 1995) was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago and an influential sociologist.

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Eleanor Maccoby

Eleanor Emmons Maccoby (born May 15, 1917, in Tacoma, Washington) is an American psychologist who is most recognized for her research and scholarly contributions to the field of child and family psychology.

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Evon Z. Vogt

Evon Zartman Vogt, Jr. (August 18, 1918 – May 13, 2004) was an American cultural anthropologist best known for his work among the Tzotzil Mayas of Chiapas, Mexico.

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George C. Homans

George Casper Homans (August 11, 1910 – May 29, 1989) was an American Sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology and the Social Exchange Theory.

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Gordon Allport

Gordon Willard Allport (November 11, 1897 – October 9, 1967) was an American psychologist.

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Harold Garfinkel

Harold Garfinkel (October 29, 1917 – April 21, 2011) was an American sociologist, ethnomethodologist, and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Harrison White

Harrison Colyar White (born March 21, 1930) is the emeritus Giddings Professor of Sociology at Columbia University.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Henry Murray

Henry Alexander Murray (May 13, 1893 – June 23, 1988) was an American psychologist at Harvard University.

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Janellen Huttenlocher

Janellen Huttenlocher (February 17, 1932 – November 20, 2016) was a psychologist and professor known for her research in the field of the child's environment in the development of cognitive skills.

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Jean Lipman-Blumen

Jean Lipman-Blumen is the Thornton F. Bradhshaw Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Organizational Behavior at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California.

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Jerome Bruner

Jerome Seymour Bruner (October 1, 1915 – June 5, 2016) was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology.

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John Whiting (anthropologist)

John Wesley Mayhew Whiting (June 12, 1908 Chilmark, Massachusetts – May 13, 1999, Chilmark, Massachusetts) was an American sociologist and anthropologist, specializing in child development.

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Leon Kamin

Leon J. Kamin (December 29, 1927 – December 22, 2017) was an American psychologist known for his contributions to learning theory and his critique of estimates of the heritability of IQ.

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Marc Swartz

Marc J. Swartz (31 October 1931 – 14 December 2011) was an American political and cultural anthropologist with areal specialization in eastern Africa.

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Mark Granovetter

Mark Granovetter (born October 20, 1943) is an American sociologist and professor at Stanford University.

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Melvin Ember

Melvin Lawrence Ember (January 13, 1933 – September 27, 2009) was an American cultural anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher with wide-ranging interests who combined an active research career with writing for nonprofessionals.

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Michelle Rosaldo

Michelle "Shelly" Zimbalist Rosaldo (1944 in New York City – 1981 in Philippines) was a social, linguistic, and psychological anthropologist famous for her studies of the Ilongot people in the Philippines and for her pioneering role in women's studies and the anthropology of gender.

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Mormons

Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity, initiated by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s.

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Nathan Kogan

Nathan Kogan (May 2, 1926 – April 28, 2013) was an American psychologist.

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Navajo

The Navajo (British English: Navaho, Diné or Naabeehó) are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.

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Neil Smelser

Neil Joseph Smelser (July 22, 1930 – October 2, 2017) was an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Psychology

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.

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Renato Rosaldo

Renato Rosaldo (born 1941) is an American cultural anthropologist.

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Richard Price (American anthropologist)

Richard Price (born November 30, 1941, in New York City) is an American anthropologist and historian, best known for his studies of the Caribbean and his experiments with writing ethnography.

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Richard Shweder

Richard Allan Shweder (born 1945) is an American cultural anthropologist and a figure in cultural psychology.

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Robert Neelly Bellah

Robert Neelly Bellah (February 23, 1927 – July 30, 2013) was an American sociologist, and the Elliott Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Robert W. White (psychologist)

Robert W. White (1904–2001) was an American psychologist whose professional interests centered on the study of personality, both normal and abnormal.

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Roger Brown (psychologist)

Roger William Brown (April 14, 1925 – December 11, 1997), an American social psychologist, was born in Detroit.

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Roy D'Andrade

Roy Goodwin D'Andrade (November 6, 1931 – October 20, 2016) was one of the founders of cognitive anthropology.

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Seymour Martin Lipset

Seymour Martin Lipset (March 18, 1922 – December 31, 2006) was an American sociologist.

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Social relation

In social science, a social relation or social interaction is any relationship between two or more individuals.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.

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Stanley Milgram

Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was an American social psychologist, best known for his controversial experiment on obedience conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale.

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Talcott Parsons

Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism.

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Zuni

The Zuni (A:shiwi; formerly spelled Zuñi) are Native American Pueblo peoples native to the Zuni River valley.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Department_of_Social_Relations

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