Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations - Softcover

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Patrick L. Schmidt is an attorney and executive with diverse experience in Latin America and the Caribbean in the areas of renewable energy, finance, real estate, tourism, and infrastructure. He is the author of journal articles and commentary on international law and foreign policy issues including U.S. foreign aid, international human rights, internally displaced persons, and renewable energy in the Caribbean. Schmidt attended Harvard University as an undergraduate where he wrote on the topic of Harvard’s Department of Social Relations in his 1978 senior honors thesis in Harvard’s Department of Psychology and Social Relations, the successor to the Department of Social Relations. As part of his research, he interviewed 26 of the faculty members who played a role in the department’s history, including founders Talcott Parsons and Henry Murray, and critics in the Psychology Department, such as B.F. Skinner, who closely observed the rise and fall of Social Relations.