Patrick L. Schmidt, "Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)
New Books in Anthropology
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Reisman's Social Media Explosion
The book is in many ways driven by personalities because socra, which is I guess how you say social relations. So socra itself was driven by the personalities of a small number of people who wanted to found a new department. And they were all rising young but rising stars at Harvard in the late 1920s early 1930s and they were very frustrated in their existing departments. The traditional departments didn't want to have anything to do with it, particularly psychology. This caused a lot of frustration on the part of the levelers who wanted to incorporate psychoanalytic thought in their research.
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