ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some traditional images of the relation between European and American sociology. Charles Ellwood's successes and failures in Europe suggest some possible interpretations of the divisions between European and American sociology, and to some extent undermines Tenbruck's argument. Ellwood's connections in Europe, and his warm relations with small-country sociologists, such as those of the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia, point to a world of interwar sociology that has little connection with the world that emerged after World War II, and has rarely been studied as a part of the history of international sociology. Ellwood was the third American, after Lester Ward, the first president, and Giddings, who was unable to perform his duties because of the First World War. The European war had begun; Romania had become a kind of royal dictatorship. Corrado Gini revived the organization after the war, but it was shunned by the newly formed International Sociological Association (ISA).
