THE SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL: ITS ORIGIN AND OBJECTS.

SOCIAL science research; CLEARINGHOUSES; AMERICAN Political Science Association; PHYSICAL sciences; EMIGRATION & immigration

The article focuses on the establishment and objects of the Social Science Research Council. The origin of the Social Science research Council may be said to date from the December 1921 meeting of the American Political Science Association. In its work, during the following year, this Committee devoted itself primarily to a survey of existing research agencies and their methods, to find ways and means for the improvement of the quality and quantity of political research. As one of its major recommendations, the Committee urged the establishment of a Social Science Research Council consisting of two members each from Economics, Sociology, Political Science, and History, for the purpose of the development of research in the social studies and the establishment of a central clearing house for projects of social investigation. A factor that stimulated the development of the Social Science Research Council was the precedent set for such a council in the physical-science field by the National Research Council. This precedent gave impetus to the establishment of the Social Science Research Council, not merely by providing it a model, but also because the National Research Council asked from social scientists cooperation in its "Studies of Human Migration."