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The organization <strong>and</strong> f<strong>in</strong>anc<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> <strong>research</strong> 707<br />

UNITED STATES. The <strong>social</strong> sciences <strong>in</strong> an American university as illustrated by <strong>the</strong><br />

University <strong>of</strong> California - Los Angeles (1966)<br />

Basic <strong>social</strong> science departments<br />

Anthropology<br />

Economics<br />

L<strong>in</strong>guistics<br />

Political Science<br />

Psychology<br />

Sociology<br />

Total<br />

Pr<strong>of</strong>essional schools<br />

Bus<strong>in</strong>ess adm<strong>in</strong>istration<br />

Education<br />

Psychiatry<br />

Public health<br />

Social welfare<br />

Total<br />

Full O<strong>the</strong>r Total<br />

pr<strong>of</strong>essors faculty faculty<br />

I2<br />

I2<br />

IO<br />

I1<br />

20<br />

IO<br />

75<br />

30<br />

33<br />

6<br />

24<br />

4<br />

22<br />

25<br />

20<br />

29<br />

75<br />

30<br />

20 I<br />

59<br />

41<br />

76<br />

98<br />

24<br />

34<br />

37<br />

30<br />

40<br />

95<br />

40<br />

276<br />

89<br />

74<br />

82<br />

I22<br />

28<br />

97 298 395<br />

Speciul <strong>research</strong> facilities<br />

Institute <strong>of</strong> Industrial Relations<br />

Western Management Sciences Institute<br />

Institute <strong>of</strong> Government <strong>and</strong> Public Affairs<br />

The Law Science Research Center<br />

African Studies Center<br />

Center for Lat<strong>in</strong> American Studies<br />

The Near East Center<br />

Center for Russian <strong>and</strong> East European Studies<br />

Center for Research <strong>in</strong> Languages <strong>and</strong> L<strong>in</strong>guistics<br />

Center for Comparative Folklore <strong>and</strong> Mythology<br />

Western Data Process<strong>in</strong>g Center<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r discipl<strong>in</strong>es than can ‘total discipl<strong>in</strong>es’. The boundaries between such vast<br />

fields as economics, psychology <strong>and</strong> sociology are arbitrary. There is vested<br />

<strong>in</strong>terest <strong>in</strong> ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong>m but this is becom<strong>in</strong>g less. Never<strong>the</strong>less, <strong>the</strong> basic<br />

academic discipl<strong>in</strong>es rema<strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> areas <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> highest prestige. They tend to<br />

reta<strong>in</strong> a ‘pure’ orientation <strong>and</strong> to look down on applied work. They have also<br />

tended to be method-centred <strong>and</strong> to over-value quantitative approaches.<br />

19. For some years psychology <strong>in</strong> all its many branches has been <strong>the</strong> dom<strong>in</strong>at<strong>in</strong>g<br />

academic discipl<strong>in</strong>e with economics a close second.* This is possibly<br />

because parts <strong>of</strong> it overlap with biology, while o<strong>the</strong>rs are susceptible to sophisticated<br />

<strong>research</strong> design, laboratory methods <strong>and</strong> ref<strong>in</strong>ed statistical treatment.<br />

The follow<strong>in</strong>g table gives <strong>the</strong> number <strong>of</strong> faculty <strong>in</strong> each <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> basic<br />

discipl<strong>in</strong>es toge<strong>the</strong>r with <strong>the</strong> number <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> correspond<strong>in</strong>g pr<strong>of</strong>essional associations.**<br />

* Economics is, <strong>of</strong> course, <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> us as elsewhere, far ahead <strong>of</strong> any o<strong>the</strong>r 2ocial science<br />

<strong>in</strong> its impact on policy.<br />

** The vast majority <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se are Ph.D.s, though <strong>the</strong>re is a marg<strong>in</strong>al category <strong>in</strong> some

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