Chicago Committee Research Articles

WALKING THE TIGHTROPE: THE COMMITTEE ON THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES AND ACADEMIC CULTURES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 1949-1955.

The Chicago Committee on the Behavioral Sciences occupies a special place in the eponymous movement. Involving prominent figures such as psychologist James G. Miller and neurophysiologist Ralph W. Gerard, this committee embodied the common belief among behavioral scientists that a cross-disciplinary approach using natural science methods was key to understanding major issues facing mid-century American society. This interdivisional committee fell under the jurisdiction of both the natural and social sciences. As such, its flagship project, an institute of mental sciences, had to face the reluctance both of natural scientists who thought it inadequately scientific and of social scientists who regard its efforts as too narrow in scope and too biological in orientation. Though it failed in its main objective to create an institute, the committee was a formidable instrument of intellectual stimulation and socialization for its members. It provided them with an opportunity to familiarize themselves with each other's scientific backgrounds, practices and jargons, realize the significance of academic cultural differences and learn ways to accommodate them.

The individual and “the general situation”: The tension barometer and the race problem at the University of Chicago, 1947–1954

This article explains how social theories that posited white attitudes as the root of racial injustice gained traction in postwar social thought. Examining the production of a "tension barometer," an attitude survey that scholars from the University of Chicago's Committee on Education, Training, and Research in Race Relations created to predict interracial violence, I chart vigorous debate over the nature and causes of racial oppression in the critical postwar decades. Available-and unavailable-social scientific frameworks, activists" interests, and emerging anticommunism, the Committee's history shows, created an environment where individualistic conceptions of "the race problem" won out, despite critique.

CORRESPONDENCE

Anthropology NewsVolume 42, Issue 3 p. 3-3 CORRESPONDENCE Uncertainty and Naiveté Emile Schepers, Emile Schepers Director, Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of RightsSearch for more papers by this author Emile Schepers, Emile Schepers Director, Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of RightsSearch for more papers by this author First published: 07 July 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/an.2001.42.3.3.3AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume42, Issue3March 2001Pages 3-3 RelatedInformation

Transcendence in the Pre‐school; Supporting the Relationship between the Pre‐school and the Church

This article has grown out of our combined work in the fields of early childhood education and religious education. Over the past year we have been working with the Chicago Committee on Children (funded by the Chicago Community Trust Fund), a group of early childhood and clergy persons interested in improving the quality and understanding of young children's programmes housed in churches. While many issues have surfaced in our meetings, the question of differing language systems has emerged as a major factor blocking church leaders and pre‐school personnel arriving at a common understanding of the importance of such programmes.

Scapegoating Intellectuals

>'Is there a gulf between the educated, non-academic public and the university intellectuals ... ?' What university intellectuals? 'Commitment to a profession' is a cover for careerism and has little to do with being an intellectual. The assumption that intellectuals find their natural habitat in universities hardly stands examination, in North America or Europe. The assumption is presumably extrapolated from fractional instances—the odd Cambridge college for a couple of decades, the New School for Social Research or Chicago's Committee on Social Thought episodically. There is and ought to be no institutional preserve for intellectuals: if there were, intellectuals would constitute a professional class much like any other. When it happens, infrequently, that intellectuals are perceived to form a group, that perception may be due to academic affiliation. There is no likely place to find intellectuals, any more than there is a likely place to meet strangers. Wittgenstein thought that no honest, thoughtful person could be a professor. I have encountered intellectuals in the most unlikely places, including universities.

Pre-morbid personality in the functional psychoses of the senium. A comparison of ex-patients with healthy controls.

In the last few years many studies have appeared relating directly or indirectly to the role of adjustment in the ageing process. What factors influence the adaptability of the elderly person to his or her own disability, isolation or approaching death? In general the studies done by sociologists stress the importance of the social situation in which these persons find themselves. P. Townsend's book “The Family Life of Old People” (1957), the articles of Havighurst (1958) and his group in Chicago, and of Post (1958) are examples of this view. In what may be regarded in some way as a reaction to this tendency, we have the theory of disengagement of Cumming et al. (1960), in which “ageing is seen as an inevitable mental withdrawal or disengagement resulting in decreased interaction between the ageing person and others in the social system to which they belong”. But it is Irving Rosow (1960) who emphasizes this point more clearly. After critically reviewing diverse approaches, he states (and I quote from different paragraphs throughout his paper), “The root of the problem lies in regarding adjustment as a state or a condition at a point in time”. “What gerontologists have called adjustment is actually the result of the product of the ageing process”. “Thus it follows that the only way to evaluate conditions in later life is to compare them with some earlier patterns”. From there on he presents his own sociological theory of adjustment. Strengthening this view still further, a psychologist, Robert Peck (1960), reporting on one phase of the “Kansas Study of Adult Life” by the University of Chicago Committee on Human Development writes, “Adjustment to middle age and old age, in so far as it has been measured in this research, seems largely determined by personality characteristics which have been laid down earlier in life”. It is psychiatrists, however, who have insisted on the importance of the previous personality in the problems related to ageing, as may be noted in the publications of Cameron (1956) and Roth (1959).

July 16 set as deadline for abstracts by Chicago committee

Journal of the American Oil Chemists' SocietyVolume 33, Issue 6 p. a23-a23 News July 16 set as deadline for abstracts by Chicago committee First published: 01 June 1956 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02630870AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume33, Issue6June 1956Pages a23-a23 RelatedInformation

Science and Loyalty

In the following reviews, Dr. J. H. Rush discusses several volumes which have recently appeared on the questions of loyalty and security. Dr. Rush, a physicist at the Harvard High Altitude Observatory at Boulder, Colorado, has for many years been active in atomic education and was secretary of the Federation of American Scientists. He was at Oak Ridge during the war.An analysis of the Forrestal Diaries is also presented here by Waiter Johnson, Chairman of the Department of History at the University of Chicago. He edited Edward Stettinius' volume, Roosevelt and the Russians: The Story of the Yalta Conference, and is editor of the forthcoming book, Turbulent Era: A Diplomatic Record of Forty Years, by Ambassador Joseph C. Grew. In 1945–46 Dr. Johnson worked intimately with the Chicago committee sponsoring the McMahon Act.

Activities of the Chicago Committee on Alcoholism

Activities of the Chicago Committee on Alcoholism

Chicago committee assists new officers in planning fall conference and meeting

Oil and SoapVolume 21, Issue 7 p. a7-a7 Article Chicago committee assists new officers in planning fall conference and meeting First published: 01 July 1944 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02544177AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume21, Issue7July 1944Pages a7-a7 RelatedInformation

Report of the chicago committee on otogenic meningitis, 1939

Report of the chicago committee on otogenic meningitis, 1939

The University of Chicago Committee on Cancer

The University of Chicago Committee on Cancer

Report of the chicago committee on otogenic meningitis

In considering the diagnosis of meningitis for the purpose of treatment, we are confronted with the fact, first, that it may be of nonsurgical type, meningococcic, tubercular, influenzal, aseptic lymphogenous, or due to encephalitis or neoplasm. Secondly, if associated with a discharging ear, in which event, unless promptly proved otherwise, we assume for purposes of treatment that the suppurating ear is causative, we still do not know whether the meningitis is generalized (by which I mean that viable organisms may be cultured from the spinal fluid), or still localized and secondary to sinus thrombosis, extradural abscess or brain abscess, or merely so-called meningismus (a term that I deplore), thus offering hope for successful surgery. We, therefore, recommend the following procedure:

Report of the chicago committee on otitic meningitis

AbstractIn considering the diagnosis of meningitis for the purpose of treatment, we are confronted with the fact, first, that it may be of nonsurgical type, meningococcic, tubercular, influenzal, aseptic lymphogenous, or due to encephalitis or neoplasm. Secondly, if associated with a discharging ear, in which event, unless promptly proved otherwise, we assume for purposes of treatment that the suppurating ear is causative, we still do not know whether the meningitis is generalized (by which I mean that viable organisms may be cultured from the spinal fluid), or still localized and secondary to sinus thrombosis, extradural abscess or brain abscess, or merely so‐called meningismus (a term that I deplore), thus offering hope for successful surgery. We, therefore, recommend the following procedure:

The Fourteenth Annual Meeting

An Invitation Every member of the Radiological Society of North America is expected to take advantage of the many scientific opportunities afforded in Chicago by attending this Fourteenth Annual Meeting. It is the Society's loss as well as your own if you fail to be present. The Program which has been prepared is both Scientific and Clinical in character and divided into diagnostic and therapy sections and yet the entire field and the most recent advances in radiology have been most carefully covered. Those who are practising radiology, internal and general medicine, surgery, other specialties and allied sciences are privileged and invited to attend all of the scientific sessions and exhibits. Your colleagues and friends, and–most important–the Ladies, are likewise cordially invited and urged to be present by the officers of your Society and the Local Chicago Committee, for the enjoyment of the scientific and social program prepared for them during this annual gathering.