David J. Pittman

A Comparison of Two Treatment Programs for Alcoholics

Supported (in part) by a Mental Health Project Grant (MH657) from the National Institute of Mental Health, United States Public Health Service. The materials presented here are derived from Section IV of &dquo;The Alcoholism Treatment and Referral Demonstration Project Final Report,&dquo; Social Science Institute, Washington University, December 1967. We are indebted to the clinical staff of the Alcoholism Treatment and Research

Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis: History and reflections, 1906–1989

Decisions, such as the one to abolish the sociology department at Washington University, do not happen over night. In this article, we trace the fine, if at times fraught, history of sociology at WU, from 1906 to 1989. The department has been home to two presidents of the ASA and location for exciting work in both theory and research. We note that the demise of the department has been a long time in the making, although the death blow was struck as if it constituted the necessary slaughter of the weak. A conservative university has eliminated a once-stellar department and, in so doing, dismissed the relevance of social thought in this modern era.