ABSTRACT
The original concept of the AAAS symposium featured disciplines as the basis of the presentations. That is, the presenters were selected by the editors because of their contributions to the general problem, and were asked to report on what their discipline, or field of study and endeavor, had to do with the People-Resources issues. A science of people-resources relations is different from one of people-environment relations. In the absence of direct policy statements, one may infer that scientific theory of P-R relations contains indirect policy declarations. Implications of something larger than scientific empiricism and theory there may be, but its expression, as already suggested, is ambiguous. The choice-exchange model is a powerful tool; it comes closer to describing the process of social-purposive behavior than any other. "Culture" becomes the substitute for a behavioral analysis; it gives the impression that it is not people who are the agents of environmental impact so much as their culture, or ways of doing things.
