ABSTRACT
Robert B. Smith teaches research methods and political sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is preparing several books for publication. He is editor of Social Science Methods, (1971), a new introductory methods text, and author of Why Soldiers Fight (1971), an empirical corroboration of the group cohesion theory of combat motivation. His papers in this volume areppart of a larger study of the social costs of the Vietnam war.
