RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 199
actually in progress undertakes the study of important
current questions, such as, technical
progress and mechanization of industry in relation
to industrial and labor organization and to
the psychology of the laboring class, the problems
of nationalism and international relations,
analysis of processes of cultural change among
native French populations, the position of
women, the organization of consumers.
The Foundation grant provides 225,000 a year
to the University of Paris for five years.
A grant of 37,500 was made in 1935 to the
University of Stockholm to permit the part-time
employment of an American sociologist for a
period of two years. A program of sociological
studies is well under way in Sweden involving a
cooperative arrangement with an American scientist
who is training a group of Swedish graduate
students to undertake concrete investigations.
SUMMARY OF APPROPRIATIONS TO INSTITUTIONAL CENTERS
IN 1935
United States
Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Research pro- ,
gram in the social sciences 375,000
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. General
research fund in the social sciences 150,000
University of California, Berkeley. Research program of
the Institute of the Social Sciences 75,000
University of Chicago, Illinois. Research facilities, Division
of the Social Sciences 150,000
University of North Carolina, Chape! Hill. Institute for
Research in the Social Sdences 75,000
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