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(Contains recordings of the symposium welcome, opening remarks, "International Service: Overview of the Current Landscape" panel, and "The Impact of Interational Service: What are the Lessons?" panel.)

Lecture 1: Catford talks about his early life in Scotland and the development of his interest in linguistics as a schoolboy; covers his life through about 1936.

(Overview of the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. Features: social change, social science, Maris VVinovskis (historian), Robert Kahn (ISR Founders Group), David L. Featherman (ISR Director), Charles Cannell (ISR Founders Group), Doc Cartwright (ISR Founders Group), probability sampling, Leslie Kish (ISR Founders Group), Warren Miller (Founding Director Center for Political Studies), Alvin Zander (ISR Founders Group), Richard Nisbett (psychologist), James Jackson (Director, Group Dynamics), The Panel Study, Thomas Juster (Emeritus ISR Director), Kenneth Prewitt (Director, U.S. Census Bureau), Sandy Hofferth (sociologist), The Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Richard Rockwell (Director, ICPSR), Monitoring the Future Study, Jerald Bachman (social psychologist), Lloyd Johnston (social psychologist), Neil J. Smelser (Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences), Patricia Gurin (psychologist), James House (Director, Center for Survey Research), Norbert Schwarz (cognitive psychologist), Health and Retirement Survey, Asset and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old, Robert Willis (economist), Denise Park (cognitive psychologist), violent behavior, Rowell Huesmann (psychologist), Phoebe Ellsworth (psychologist), Warren Miller (Founder, National Election Studies), William Zimmerman (Director, Center for Political Studies).)