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This was the motto of the Century of Progress, a world's fair held in Chicago in 1933-1934. The last part of the motto, "Man Conforms," now seems repressive. But it in fact comes from the work of the social scientists of the University of Chicago prior to the fair. As Chicago had a tremendous increase in population, much of which came from the farmlands surrounding it, the sociologists were motivated to study how rural people acquired the social skills to live in the city. They called this process "learning to conform." A 1933 Century of Progress worlds fair poster The Century of Progress Exposition was a worlds fair held in Chicago, Illinois from 1933-1934 to celebrate Chicagos centennial. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The University of Chicago is a private co-educational university located in Chicago, Illinois. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...
The subject matter of human science is a particular species, Homo sapiens, which can be studied by natural science, as we would study ants, and also by another set of disciplines, which have as their central feature the fact of human subjectivity and meaning.
ManConforms." The assumption behind such statements is that science is sure and acts upon Man, the object, in no uncertain terms.
It is the very practice of this method—changed over time in accord with its own findings and in accord with the nature of the phenomena to which it is extended, but unchanged in its fundamental attributes—that constitutes modern science and is the basis of its accumulated findings.
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