As a social scientist working in academia, I personally have witnessed from the 1940s on some planned unification of human disciplines (even involving dynastic intellectual marriages of leading members of departments). But it has been obvious that serious integration within the social sciences is as yet far off. Yet today, at the end of my personal career, I find myself still laboring at what has been termed an interdisciplinary approach. From my days as a graduate student at the University of Chicago in the 1940s I have watched a number of attempts within several universities to bring about some better theoretical and methodological cooperation, if not integration, in the study of what was then termed culture and personality. For my theoretical master's dissertation in anthropology, written in 1948 under Robert Redfield and Lloyd Warner, I had attempted to integrate some central concepts used by sociologist Emile Durkheim with those forwarded by psychoanalyst Abram Kardiner, who was then with anthropologist Ralph Linton at Columbia University attempting to bring psychodynamic insights into the study of child development, culture patterns, and social organization. Elsewhere in the Ivy League of American universities, principally at Harvard and Yale, some psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists were then attempting to unite themselves into new departments such as the Department of Social Relations at Harvard. Most of these efforts have faded away. However, there are as yet extant at Chicago, and some American faculties elsewhere-for example, Harvard and the University of California at Davis and Santa Cruz-some predoctoral interdisciplinary programs, usually called Human Development, that within a few university settings are attempting to bring about more integrative interdisciplinary training that centers around a variety of topics, such as the social construction of knowledge, childhood socialization, or