Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Encyclopedia
The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) is an American
interdisciplinary research body in Stanford, California
focusing on the social sciences
and humanities
. Fellows are elected in a closed process, to spend a period of residence at the Center, released from other duties. They work on their own research and are able to interact with other Fellows.
The Center was founded in 1954, initially funded by the Ford Foundation
. The first director from 1954 to 1966 was Ralph W. Tyler
. In the first 40 years it supported about 2.000 scientists and scholars. In 2008 it became part of Stanford University
. The Center is a member of the group Some Institutes for Advanced Study
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
interdisciplinary research body in Stanford, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
focusing on the social sciences
Social sciences
Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
and humanities
Humanities
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
. Fellows are elected in a closed process, to spend a period of residence at the Center, released from other duties. They work on their own research and are able to interact with other Fellows.
The Center was founded in 1954, initially funded by the Ford Foundation
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is a private foundation incorporated in Michigan and based in New York City created to fund programs that were chartered in 1936 by Edsel Ford and Henry Ford....
. The first director from 1954 to 1966 was Ralph W. Tyler
Ralph W. Tyler
Ralph W. Tyler was an American educator who worked in the field of assessment and evaluation. He served on or advised a number of bodies that set guidelines for the expenditure of federal funds and influenced the underlying policy of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Tyler...
. In the first 40 years it supported about 2.000 scientists and scholars. In 2008 it became part of Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. The Center is a member of the group Some Institutes for Advanced Study
Some Institutes for Advanced Study
The Some Institutes for Advanced Study consortium organizes ten "institutes for advanced study" founded on the same principles as the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, which is also one of the members.- Overview :...
.
Faculty
The Institute has been home to notable scholars, including:- Alexander AstinAlexander AstinDr. Alexander W. Astin is the Allan M. Carter Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Organizational Change, at the University of California, Los Angeles....
- Leora AuslanderLeora AuslanderLeora Auslander is Professor of European Social History at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. She specializes in the history of France and Germany, focusing on 19th and 20th century social history; material culture and consumption; gender history and theory; Jewish history; and the...
- Ludwig von BertalanffyLudwig von BertalanffyKarl Ludwig von Bertalanffy was an Austrian-born biologist known as one of the founders of general systems theory . GST is an interdisciplinary practice that describes systems with interacting components, applicable to biology, cybernetics, and other fields...
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- Kenneth Boulding
- Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt
- Yehuda ElkanaYehuda ElkanaYehuda Elkana was born in 1934 in Subotica, Yugoslavia. He is a distinguished historian and philosopher of science, and a former President and Rector of the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. He is married to Dr Yehudit Elkana and has four children.-Life and career:Born to Hungarian...
- Harold GarfinkelHarold GarfinkelHarold Garfinkel was a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is known for establishing and developing ethnomethodology as a field of inquiry in sociology.-Biography:...
- Henry Louis Gates
- Ralph W. GerardRalph W. GerardRalph Waldo Gerard was an American neurophysiologist and behavioral scientist known for his wide-ranging work on the nervous system, nerve metabolism, psychopharmacology, and biological basis of schizophrenia.-Biography:...
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- Kieran HealyKieran HealyKieran Healy is an Irish sociologist at Duke University and a regular visitor to the Research School in Social Science at the Australian National University. He earned his PhD in sociology from Princeton University having begun his studies at University College Cork, in Ireland. He is married to...
- Miles HewstoneMiles HewstoneMiles Hewstone is a leading social psychologist who is well-known for his work on social relations.He graduated from the University of Bristol in 1978 and then moved to the University of Oxford from which he obtained a D.Phil. in social psychology in 1981. He pursued post-doctoral work at the...
- Douglas HofstadterDouglas HofstadterDouglas Richard Hofstadter is an American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics...
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- Thomas KuhnThomas KuhnThomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was deeply influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term "paradigm shift," which has since become an English-language staple.Kuhn...
- Elijah MillgramElijah MillgramElijah "Lije" Millgram is an American philosopher. He is E.E. Ericksen Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. His research specialties include practical reason and moral philosophy.Elijah Millgram received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1991...
- Rodney NeedhamRodney NeedhamRodney Needham was one of the leading British social anthropologists.Born as Rodney Phillip Needham Green, Needham changed his name in 1947,the same year he married Claudia Brysz....
- Robert NozickRobert NozickRobert Nozick was an American political philosopher, most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a professor at Harvard University. He is best known for his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia , a right-libertarian answer to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice...
- Anatol RapoportAnatol RapoportAnatol Rapoport was a Russian-born American Jewish mathematical psychologist. He contributed to general systems theory, mathematical biology and to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion.-Biography:...
- Julie ReubenJulie ReubenJulie A. Reuben is a historian interested in the role of education in American society and culture. Her teaching and research address broad questions about the purposes of education; the relation between educational institutions and political and social concerns; and the forces that shape...
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- Richard SennettRichard SennettRichard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University...
- Steven ShapinSteven ShapinSteven Shapin is a historian and sociologist of science. He is currently the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University...
- Sidney SiegelSidney SiegelSidney Siegel was an American psychologist who became especially well-known for his work in popularising non-parametric statistics for use in the behavioural sciences. He was a co-developer of the statistical test known as the Siegel–Tukey test.Siegel completed a Ph.D. in Psychology in 1953 at...
- Neil SmelserNeil SmelserNeil Joseph Smelser is an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was an active researcher from 1958 to 1994. His research has been on collective behavior....
- Richard C. SnyderRichard C. SnyderRichard C. Snyder was an American political scientist who specialized in foreign policy.-Life and career:Snyder graduated from Union College in 1937 and earned his doctorate in 1945 from Columbia University...
- Thomas SowellThomas SowellThomas Sowell is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author. A National Humanities Medal winner, he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes from a libertarian perspective...
- Billie Lee Turner II
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- Irvin Yalom
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- Herman D. SteinHerman D. SteinHerman D. Stein, DSW was Dean of the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and University Professor Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH...