Download or read book Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science written by Patrick L. Schmidt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famed sociologist Talcott Parsons led some of the most renowned social scientists of the twentieth century to establish a new department for an interdisciplinary science at Harvard. This is a fascinating instructive tale of hubris, ego, and academic politics overlaid on Parsons’s obsessive quest for an all-encompassing theory of social behavior.