The article examines the relationship between social responsibility and stock market performance of corporations in the U.S. for the period 1970-1974. Risk measures and differential returns of the securities in the social responsibility surveys were calculated for the five-year sample period 1970-1974 and a three-year subperiod 1971-1973. The measures of differential return were ranked in descending order over the five and three-year periods. Rank order correlations were calculated between survey rank and differential return rank. These correlations indicate a low insignificant relationship between risk-adjusted performance and degree of social responsibility.