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DOI: 10.1177/106939717000500101
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Human Relations Area Files: 1949-1969 A Twenty-Year Report

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“…In the 1930s, the Yale Institute of Human Relations, a think tank consisting of social and behavioral scientists, started to collect and classify cultural materials from various primary and secondary sources available at the time [27]. Research at Yale was rooted in a "long history of attempts to make available to scientists and scholars basic information on the peoples of the world, their environs, their behavior and social life, and their culture" [28] (pp. 1-2).…”
Section: Comparison In Anthropology and Cross-cultural Studiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the 1930s, the Yale Institute of Human Relations, a think tank consisting of social and behavioral scientists, started to collect and classify cultural materials from various primary and secondary sources available at the time [27]. Research at Yale was rooted in a "long history of attempts to make available to scientists and scholars basic information on the peoples of the world, their environs, their behavior and social life, and their culture" [28] (pp. 1-2).…”
Section: Comparison In Anthropology and Cross-cultural Studiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…One of my prospective grand projects is to create a global atlas of consumer phenomena akin to the Human Relations Area Files (founded at Yale University in 1949; cf. Ford, 1970), or the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample (Murdock & White, 1969). In so doing, this would allow marketing scholars to access a database of consumer phenomena that are generalizable across cultural settings, as well as identifying cross-cultural differences that are within or outside the purview of a biological-informed analysis.…”
Section: Avoiding the Weird Biasmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this case, it was the initiative of a group of psychologists, physiologists, sociologists, and anthropologists at Yale's Institute of Human Relations. One promotional history describes “the common ground on which the development stood [as] the basic assumption that all behavior, including that of people, occurs according to natural laws which ultimately are quantitatively determinable and stable by means of true equations” (Ford 1970, 5; see also Murdock 1940). Yet these familiar tropes were limited, and spatialized, by a third characteristic of modernity: the identification of unique groups of individuals sharing certain traits.…”
Section: From Classification To Governmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For his part, Murdock had returned from the Pacific in 1945, convinced, in his words, “of the need of selling social science by demonstrating its practical utility.” In a 1948 Science piece, he proudly claimed that the CIMA effort would “shortly result in the most complete, comprehensive, and up‐to‐date scientific coverage of the people of any cultural or geographical area of the world.” Murdock was clearly positioning CIMA's researchers alongside, and at the service of, government administrators. He had no interest in aiding or attempting to speak for the administered (Murdock 1948, 423–424; Bashkow 1991, 180–185; see also Ford 1970, 7–8) 17…”
Section: From Classification To Governmentmentioning
confidence: 99%