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A CONFERENCE of social scientists, convened by the Association of Scientific Workers, was held on December 14 at Gas Industry House, London, S.W.I. Mr. J. R. M. Brumwell took the chair, and the chief speakers were Prof. S. Zuckerman, Dr. G. Wagner, Mr. Dennis Chapman and Mr. R. Innes. The chairman recalled the meeting held in October 1945, at which a Joint Sciences Committee had been set up to foster relations between workers in the natural and social fields of science. The Committee had functioned successfully, and, as a direct result of its activities, an increased awareness of the links between natural and social science had spread throughout the Association of Scientific Workers. In August 1946, the functions of the Committee were assumed by the Science Policy Committee of the Association. This step was taken to avoid duplication of effort because the work of the two groups soon began to overlap. The Joint Sciences Committee was provisionally reconstituted as a Social Sciences Committee to concentrate on problems of organisation and development of the social sciences themselves. Social scientists in the Association had become more conscious of their own problems of recruitment and training. It was now proposed to set up a national section of the Association of Scientific Workers representing social scientists throughout the United Kingdom.
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COHEN, J. FUTURE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. Nature 159, 173–174 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159173a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/159173a0