RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

194 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
suming the responsibility for providing them.
The
social scientist is relied upon to an increasing
extent in American public life; his opportunities
to participate in the handling of complex
contemporary problems are numerous, and
sometimes too insistently presented by laymen
who are over sanguine as to the results to be
achieved by the application of scientific knowledge.
Continued study in the university and in
the community outside should in time enable the
social scientist to meet these expectations. s)
The Foundation is bringing to a close its
financial aid to general institutional research in
the social sciences. Certain grants were made in
1935, and others will be made in 1936, to terminate
Foundation financing of institutional research
programs by the end of 1940. According
to recent decision, the Foundation will for the
present use the resources available for the program
in the social sciences to develop specific
areas of activity which hold possibilities of aiding
in the solution of pressing social problems.
Three areas of study have thus far been undertaken—social
security, international relations,
and public administration. The work now under
way in each of these areas will be described at
some length following a resume of the enterprises
receiving Foundation support under the
general program.
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