The file contains: the minutes of the meeting (Chairman: Jean-Jacques Salomon), list of participants, draft agenda, candidate’s proposals for the Committee and CV, brief for the Chairman and correspondence.

Working documents enclosed for the meeting include: notes on priorities in social sciences by countries (DK, D, NL, S, P, and CHE), progress report of the Committee, notes on information and documentation in social sciences and on rural and urban differences and relationships.

Topics discussed include: membership of the Committee, on-going work of other European Science Foundation Committee (Standing Committee for Humanities, European cooperation on comparative law), social sciences activities (values, history and sociology of science, migration, socio-economics consequences of technological development, financing of small cooperative venture), topics for cooperation (the psycholinguistic study of first language acquisition and child bilingualism in Europe, centre/periphery problems, national priorities), report of the Inventory Sub-group, Social science Data Banks, censuses.

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