The Noble Experiment

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Excerpt from The Noble Experiment: Social Scientists in Engineering The above quotes are from faculty members in a university civil engineering department after a discussion of the negative tenure decisions for two social scientists who had been hired by the department head. This paper examines the forces which aided and hindered the attempt of the department head and a small group of social scientists to legitimate the membership and activities of social scientists in this engineering department. By focusing on this change effort as seen by the department head and social scientists, this study illustrates in microcosm several key issues about the development of academic disciplines. The paper proposes that the academic department 13 the arena where intellectual forces from several disciplines meet with the organizational forces peculiar to the university and combine to locally define (and re-define) the academic discipline. This case illustrates a particular category of the development of the academic disciplines - the addition of new members representing heretofore unincluded disciplines into a professional/academic department. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.