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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 21, 1964
Professor Discusses Sociology, History
Sociology students had better start carrying more hours of history if they really want to know what they're talking about.
That was the essence of what Harvard sociologist George C. Homans said yesterday in a lecture titled "Sociology and History."
Mr. Homans, who is president of the American Sociological Association in addition to teaching at Harvard, seemed to feel strongly about the importance of knowledge of history for sociologists.
"MANY SOCIOLOGISTS are content to make hifalutin' comments about social change without having ever studied (the history of) social change," he said.
"Some sociologists thought they could patronize the historians and write better history than the historians," he continued.
In pointing out the differences between the two fields, Professor Homans described historians as being concerned with events in time sequences. Historians feel guilty about writing about contemporary history, he said, while sociologists like to write about contemporary history.
History is concerned with kings and politics, he continued, while sociology is concerned with slums and
urban renewal. While sociologists have been suspicious of great men, and would rather deal with groups of large numbers, historians are very concerned with and interested in great men.
PROFESSOR HOMANS referred to sociology as a "latecomer" among the academic disciplines. Early European sociologists were often great men from other disciplines, he said.
Although sociology developed independently from history, it wasn't too long after its beginning that the interests of historians began to converge with the kind of thing sociologists were interested in, he said.
Using his own knowledge of seventeenth century English history as an example, Prof. Homans pointed out the different kinds of social history sociologists need to study in order to interpret sociological trends and developments within any given period.
"Sociologists seismom master the facts of economic history," he continued. "And yet historians act like sociologists in the study of certain problems, because the nature of the problem forces them to do so."
"Sociologists must have mastered the monographs written by those who have," he said.
"KU,..Meet JAZZ"
This SATURDAY, April 25, KU will have a chance to meet jazz from all parts of the United States as 12 collegiate groups meet here for the first O READ JAZZ FESTIVAL.
They will be competing for such prizes as a concert trip to Europe, new instruments, scholarships, and many others.
To top the evening off, Woody Herman and his Swingin' Herd will give a concert in Hoch along with the five group finalists.
TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE AT THE INFORMATION BOOTH.
$1.50 with ID or $1.75 includes admittance to all day preliminaries in the Union and the concert at 8 p.m. in Hoch.
For the first time the University will offer summer residence hall accommodations with meal service. Air-conditioned Ellsworth Hall will be available as a co-educational residence. Carruth-O'Leary Hall also will be co-educational but without meals.
The KU summer session schedule listing 586 course offerings by 52 schools and departments is now being distributed. The session will run from June 8 to August 1.
Summer Session Offers 586 Courses
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