ABSTRACT
Sociology is currently undergoing change at a faster rate than almost any other scholarly discipline. Once taught only at the more cosmopolitan universities and confused by many laymen with socialism or social work, sociology is now firmly ensconced in the public area. Its annual meetings are covered by newspapers and magazines; its more literate practitioners are writing regularly for sophisticated and even for popular magazines; sociologists are being hired by governmental agencies and private firms, and journalists with undergraduate sociology credits are straining towards sociological analyses in the features they write for the Sunday supplements.
