times are contradictory. That's good. For all will hope that nothing said today to our young Ph.D.'s will inhibit a daring willingness to pick up torches which others found too hot to handle or which in older hands merely sputtered and went out. And all through this unique symposium there glows a faith in the future for those who will build the sociology of the last half of the twentieth century. This program has been made possible by the facilities of the Columbia Broadcasting System.