ABSTRACT
Scientific biographies in the social and behavioral sciences reflect changes taking place in society, its social institutions, and culture. This influence is expressed most often through family life, graduate education, and the transition to the first professional job. In my doctoral cohort of 1961, new PhDs in the quantitative social sciences were prepared for a career that drew heavily upon social survey methods. I followed this path in graduate studies at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, with a specialization in social psychology that linked the Departments of Sociology and Psychology.
