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News Notes of California Libraries, Vol. 28 : January-October, 1933 (Classic Reprint).cCalifornia State Library
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Author: California State Library
Number of Pages: 528 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781332168941
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Excerpt from News Notes of California Libraries, Vol. 28: January-October, 1933 In talking to you about the uses of research, I am going to be more specific than your announcement indicates and instead of speaking on research in general, I shall confine myself largely to research in the social sciences. One reason for this is that it would take an encyclopedic mind to do justice to the subject of research in all the sciences and another is that at this particular moment in the history of the world, the problems of social science happen to be the most important ones confronting us. Indeed they are so important that it is doubtful that whatever progress is made in other fields can bring any widespread benefit to the world until these social difficulties are settled in some fashion. The fruits of research in other fields are rendered sterile so long as we fail to apply those of this particular field. What use, for example, is the development of labor-saving mechanical devices to ten million unemployed and to many millions more threatened with unemployment? And why spend millions of dollars on medical research in the problems of malnutrition, tuberculosis, etc., so long as we continue to develop and tolerate conditions which manufacture these evils on a wholesale scale? The primary job of the world right now is to set its social and economic house in order. It would seem almost unnecessary to emphasize this fact at this time. There is probably not one of us here whose life has not been touched in some way by our present social and economic breakdown. Even those of you who are civil service employees and who therefore seem to possess a somewhat greater degree of security than the average worker in private business know what is happening to other people. And while you may not be apprehensive about your own particular position, Chicago has shown that in a time of prolonged economic chaos, no one is really safe. There is another reason why a consideration of research in the social sciences is particularly urgent now. It is in the social sciences that there has been the widest gap between research and application. It is here that the scientific method has apparently fallen down most dismally. It is almost the only group of sciences in which the business of applying to daily life what we have already found out encounters an almost insurmountable barrier. I am aware, of course, that the research specialist in other fields will insist that his own profession is not without its inconsistencies, difficulties and downright dishonesties. If any of you have read that belligerent book, The Degradation of Science by T. Swann Harding, you will realize to what extent all the sciences have been seduced by what Mr. Harding has called "the profit motive"; how doctors endorse yeast for indigestion, scientists lend their support to worthless toothpastes and mouthwashes, chemists to the glorification of other private enterprises, and how effective research is often hamstrung because it may interfere with private profit. I do not know enough about the physical sciences, generally, to judge the accuracy of all Mr. Harding's charges, though I suspect many of them are correct. But I do know that ill his chapter on the social sciences, the author knows his subject. And I am certain that it is in this field that there is the widest divergence between knowledge and practice. There are obvious reasons why this should be so. It is in this field that private interests conflict most frequently with social interests. There is opportunism and individual dishonesty in all the sciences, perhaps, but in no other do you find this very fundamental conflict - a conflict which is not a matter of dishonesty and deliberate bad intention, but an inevitable outcome of our social organization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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News Notes of California Libraries, Vol. 28 : January-October, 1933 (Classic Reprint).cCalifornia State Library
Author: California State Library
Number of Pages: 528 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781332168941
File size: 27 Mb
Download Link: News Notes of California Libraries, Vol. 28 January-October, 1933 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from News Notes of California Libraries, Vol. 28: January-October, 1933 In talking to you about the uses of research, I am going to be more specific than your announcement indicates and instead of speaking on research in general, I shall confine myself largely to research in the social sciences. One reason for this is that it would take an encyclopedic mind to do justice to the subject of research in all the sciences and another is that at this particular moment in the history of the world, the problems of social science happen to be the most important ones confronting us. Indeed they are so important that it is doubtful that whatever progress is made in other fields can bring any widespread benefit to the world until these social difficulties are settled in some fashion. The fruits of research in other fields are rendered sterile so long as we fail to apply those of this particular field. What use, for example, is the development of labor-saving mechanical devices to ten million unemployed and to many millions more threatened with unemployment? And why spend millions of dollars on medical research in the problems of malnutrition, tuberculosis, etc., so long as we continue to develop and tolerate conditions which manufacture these evils on a wholesale scale? The primary job of the world right now is to set its social and economic house in order. It would seem almost unnecessary to emphasize this fact at this time. There is probably not one of us here whose life has not been touched in some way by our present social and economic breakdown. Even those of you who are civil service employees and who therefore seem to possess a somewhat greater degree of security than the average worker in private business know what is happening to other people. And while you may not be apprehensive about your own particular position, Chicago has shown that in a time of prolonged economic chaos, no one is really safe. There is another reason why a consideration of research in the social sciences is particularly urgent now. It is in the social sciences that there has been the widest gap between research and application. It is here that the scientific method has apparently fallen down most dismally. It is almost the only group of sciences in which the business of applying to daily life what we have already found out encounters an almost insurmountable barrier. I am aware, of course, that the research specialist in other fields will insist that his own profession is not without its inconsistencies, difficulties and downright dishonesties. If any of you have read that belligerent book, The Degradation of Science by T. Swann Harding, you will realize to what extent all the sciences have been seduced by what Mr. Harding has called "the profit motive"; how doctors endorse yeast for indigestion, scientists lend their support to worthless toothpastes and mouthwashes, chemists to the glorification of other private enterprises, and how effective research is often hamstrung because it may interfere with private profit. I do not know enough about the physical sciences, generally, to judge the accuracy of all Mr. Harding's charges, though I suspect many of them are correct. But I do know that ill his chapter on the social sciences, the author knows his subject. And I am certain that it is in this field that there is the widest divergence between knowledge and practice. There are obvious reasons why this should be so. It is in this field that private interests conflict most frequently with social interests. There is opportunism and individual dishonesty in all the sciences, perhaps, but in no other do you find this very fundamental conflict - a conflict which is not a matter of dishonesty and deliberate bad intention, but an inevitable outcome of our social organization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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