William Stephenson at the University of Chicago: Subjectivity/Objectivity Revisited

Abstract

[EDITOR'S NOTE: In this address, delivered as the keynote to the Tenth Annual Q Conference, Bob Lipgar reflects upon his days as a graduate student at the University of Chicago during the time William Stephenson was a member of the faculty there. It was during his Chicago years, of course, that Stephenson's seminal statement on Q methodology, The Study of Behavior, was issued and an awareness of the magnitude of Professor Stephenson's Chicago years are well captured—along with a sense of the rich intellectual atmosphere of that time and place—in Dr. Lipgar's remarks. His address is reprinted here in the exact form in which it was prepared and delivered. DBT]