General Education in the Social Sciences

Preface by John J. MacAloon
Introduction by John J. MacAloon
Part I - The College in the University
1. Not Very Simple, but Overflowing: A Historical Perspective on General Education at the University of Chicago
David E. Orlinsky
2. Requiem for the Hutchins College
F. Champion Ward
Part II - Soc 2 in the College
3. Classics and Conversations
Donald N. Levine
4. Chicago General Education in Social Sciences, 1931-92: The Case of Soc 2
David E. Orlinsky
5. A Ruminating Retrospect on the Liberal Arts, the Social Sciences, and Soc 2
Michael Schudson
6. Through the Lens of a Career: A Student's Recollections and Assessments of Soc 2
Robert Ginsberg
Part III - Intellectual Biographies and Institutional Settings
7. A College Remembered
Lewis A. Coser
8. The Scholarly Tension: Graduate Craft and Undergraduate Imagination
Joseph R. Gusfield
9. My Education in Soc 2 and My Efforts to Adapt it in the Harvard Setting
David Riesman
10. Comment on "My Education in Soc 2," by David Riesman
Harold S. Wechsler
Part IV - Enduring Controversies in Changing Times
11. Why Read Freud? Psychoanalysis, Soc 2, and the Subjective Curriculum
Bertram Cohler
12. The Portable Soc 2; or, What to Do until the Doctrine Comes
Marc Galanter
13. Alternative Social Sciences
McKim Marriott
Afterword by Ralph W. Nicholas
The Contributors
Index of Names