Correspondence, administrative and subject files, research notes, project proposals, position papers, essays, and other writings, newsletters, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other papers documenting Etzioni's career as a professor of sociology at George Washington and Columbia universities, at the Center for Policy Research, and as an advisor to President Jimmy Carter. Topics include the Vietnamese conflict, student protest movement, social policy, energy, politics and government, education, family issues, capitalism, civil rights, mental health, taxation, science and technology, poverty, violence, economics, and voluntarism.