So one issue I have with the Presidential Medal of Freedom is that there is a whole field missing, namely: the social sciences.
As someone who majored in this field it's a little sad to contemplate. Surely our field is of some value to America?
That being said, there are a few categories which are and have been represented, namely History, Education, Politics, and Economics are all awarded, and full of famous inductees (David McCullough, John Kenneth Galbraith). So what we need is a grab-bag of the other fields: Anthropology, Geography, Linguistics, Psychology, and Sociology, under the heading of Social Sciences.
To get the ball rolling, here are ten posthumous and ten living candidates. All posthumous candidates would have been alive in 1963 when the award was first given (as is the requisite custon observed by all but one - Juliette Gordon Low - posthumous inductees).
Posthumous Inductees
WEB Du Bois - Sociologist, founder of field
Margaret Meade - Anthropologist, founder of field
Robert K. Merton - Sociologist, "unintended consequences," "role model," "self-fulfilling prophecy"
Betty Friedan - Sociologist, second-wave feminist
Erving Goffman - Sociologist, dramaturgy theory
Abraham Maslow - Psychologist, "hierarchy of needs"
Dian Fossey - Anthropologist, primatologist
Alfred Crosby - Geographer, "Columbian exchange"
Edward Said - Sociologist, "Orientalism"
Carl O. Sauer - Geographer, "cultural landscapes"
Living Inductees
Noam Chomsky - Linguist, modern founder of field
Cass Sunstein - Sociologist, legal and social connections
Jared Diamond - Anthropologist and Geographer, cultural geography
Albert Bandura - Psychologist, social learning theory
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw - Sociologist, "intersectionality"
Patricia Hill Collins - Sociologist, black feminism
Steven Pinker - Psychologist and Linguist, evolutionary psychology
Elizabeth Loftus - Psychologist, memory constructs
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Sociologist, African American studies and genealogy
Francis Fukuyama - Sociologist, "end of history" and influential neoconservative
On a separate note - Has anyone else noted that Trump hasn't awarded any medals yet, now in his second year of office? How typical. Probably feels no one deserves one besides himself...
As someone who majored in this field it's a little sad to contemplate. Surely our field is of some value to America?
That being said, there are a few categories which are and have been represented, namely History, Education, Politics, and Economics are all awarded, and full of famous inductees (David McCullough, John Kenneth Galbraith). So what we need is a grab-bag of the other fields: Anthropology, Geography, Linguistics, Psychology, and Sociology, under the heading of Social Sciences.
To get the ball rolling, here are ten posthumous and ten living candidates. All posthumous candidates would have been alive in 1963 when the award was first given (as is the requisite custon observed by all but one - Juliette Gordon Low - posthumous inductees).
Posthumous Inductees
WEB Du Bois - Sociologist, founder of field
Margaret Meade - Anthropologist, founder of field
Robert K. Merton - Sociologist, "unintended consequences," "role model," "self-fulfilling prophecy"
Betty Friedan - Sociologist, second-wave feminist
Erving Goffman - Sociologist, dramaturgy theory
Abraham Maslow - Psychologist, "hierarchy of needs"
Dian Fossey - Anthropologist, primatologist
Alfred Crosby - Geographer, "Columbian exchange"
Edward Said - Sociologist, "Orientalism"
Carl O. Sauer - Geographer, "cultural landscapes"
Living Inductees
Noam Chomsky - Linguist, modern founder of field
Cass Sunstein - Sociologist, legal and social connections
Jared Diamond - Anthropologist and Geographer, cultural geography
Albert Bandura - Psychologist, social learning theory
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw - Sociologist, "intersectionality"
Patricia Hill Collins - Sociologist, black feminism
Steven Pinker - Psychologist and Linguist, evolutionary psychology
Elizabeth Loftus - Psychologist, memory constructs
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Sociologist, African American studies and genealogy
Francis Fukuyama - Sociologist, "end of history" and influential neoconservative
On a separate note - Has anyone else noted that Trump hasn't awarded any medals yet, now in his second year of office? How typical. Probably feels no one deserves one besides himself...
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