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Milton Rokeach, one of the great twentieth-century social scientists, was very influenced by Abraham Maslow as an undergraduate, & went to the U of California, Berkeley, for graduate studies. During the course of his career at Michigan State U, he produced voluminous & highly original research. Rokeach's publications are described, along with his research methods. His many contributions to, & achievements in, the field of social psychology are also identified. C. Grindle

Advisingfunders of applied social science on how to optimize the validity ofsuch research requires an implicit or explicit "sociology of scientific validity. " While such a sociology is not yet formally available, this essay attempts to make recommendations upon such a base. The specific target is preventive intervention research in mental health. Twelve of the specific recommendations are directed toward creating a mutually-monitoring (reinforcing and criticizing) applied scientific community. One section addresses the undesirable side effects that monitoring by funders can produce. A third section of four parts addresses conceptualizations of validity appropriate to applied social science.

AbstractConfusion about the meaning of validity in quasi‐experimental research can be addressed by carefully relabeling types of validity. Internal validity can more aptly be termed "local molar causal validity." More tentatively, the "principle of proximal similarity" can be substituted for the concept of external validity.