SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1941.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
LET'S TALK ABOUT-
The Student's Individual
And Social Adjustment
By J. F. BROWN
Professor of Psychology
The Lag in Social Science
"Barriers to Utopia" does not sound over-optimistic. But I choose the title advisedly. The concept "barrier" is one of the most important in modern psychology. The development of the human personality is not simply a process of the unwinding of vital inner springs in the individual, but comes about gradually as the inidividual with his definite biological constitution meets
and overcomes, or fails to overcome, barriers in the social environment.
From the birth cry to the death rattle, from the earliest weaning to the last payment on a burial insurance policy, man strives towards goals and before many of these stand barriers. The Barriers
The commands of parental authority, mother says, "mustn't"; the rules of the school, the instructor says, "F." The mores of social in-
courtesy, the intended nancee says "No"; the iron principles of the economic system, the boss says, "Sorry, but we are running in the red and I'll have to let you go," all these constitute barriers to the individual's Utopia. But through meeting these situations the personality has its growth and maturation; out of them come the normal adjusted individual as well as the maladjusted individuals and the geniuses. Modern psychology has discovered quite a lot about how different ways of meeting barriers create different types of personality.
Today some of our most severe barriers are socially conditioned. We probably could not agree to the last detail on just what a social Utopia would look like. I am pretty sure, however, that even students whose reading is limited to the Kansan—with its now rather good general
news coverage will agree with him that we do not live in one. And I think they will agree that we would like to see a world made up of cooperating national units, internally governed by democratic processes in a functional fashion with certain minimal security and freedom for even the marginal man and without threat of recurrent war and economic crises.
In the way of such a Utopia stand certain definite barriers, some of a psychological and some of a sociological sort. In this series of columns, I am going to try to tell you what modern social psychology and psychopathology has discovered about the nature of these. Our results will not all be negative. Knowing where the barriers are may help circumvent them. After all, physics had its most striking development after the nineteenth century discoveries in energetics lead all but lunatics to give up looking for perpetual motion machines, and social science may make great advances, too, when we give up hopes for cheap and easy Utopias.
The Social Lag
That our present crisis is due to a lack of applicable social science no longer needs demonstration. Physical science is in the position to guarantee the minimal physical standard of living. Biological science is in the position to guarantee an increasing standard of health and an increasing life expectancy. But sociology, social psychology and psy-
Women Medics Will Be Honor Guests at Tea
Women medical students leaving for the Bell Memorial hospital in Kansas City at the end of this semester will be guests of honor at a tea from 4 to 5 o'clock this afternoon at the home of Miss Mary Larson.
The host will be the Fem-Medics, a club for women medical students. Dr. Pauline Garber, professor of biochemistry, will speak. Election of officers will be held after the tea.
Athletic Journal Publishes Article by Dr. E. R. Elbel
Dr. E. R. Elbel, associate professor of physical education and supervisor of the University intramural program, gained national recognition when Athletic Journal, a well-known monthly magazine, published his article "Brief Survey of Intramural Sports in Universities and Colleges" in its 1940 December issue mentioned in Doctor Elbel's article are th
A committee of three members of Men's Student Council, Oliver Edwards, Sam Sifers, and Harold Johnson, under the direction of Doctor Elbel, conducted a nationwide survey of intramurals last spring. This survey consisted of gathering information concerning the respective intramural programs in colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Ninety-eight questionaires were sent out to a representative group of schools, both as to section of the country and size of the school. Eighty-four of these 98 schools replied with interesting data. Many, in fact, volunteered additional information in the form of pamphlets, booklets, and other material.
Among the noteworthy items
Doctor Elbel compiled the information received in the questionaires and has written an article which has created a great deal of interest. Many universities have written Doctor Elbel asking for additional information which he left out of his article. One correspondent hailed from the University of Hawaii at Honolulu.
mentioned in Doctor Elbel's article are the various methods of obtaining officials and gaining appropriations for the intramural program. More than half of the schools who answered the questionaires pay their officials, the amounts varying from 25 cents to five dollars. The appropriations range from as low as $100 annually to as high as $20,000. Elbel closes his article with a brief, but conclusive summary.
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