ABSTRACT
In both weapons development and social organization, then, creativity is required to meet global shifts in power and to accommodate the demands of poorer countries for political and economic equality. Yet both our social values and our organizational forms inhibit the conflict and criticism which are the very beginning of creativity. Because it is so vital today, the sociology of conflict is considered. Big organizations do indeed have vital social dysfunctions over and beyond their failure to provide a democratic-humanistic work environment. The consequences of conflicting values of scientists and military-organization men can usefully be presented in the context of interpersonal theory. In the history of anarchism, there are two definite trends in its approach to historical change, trends that coincided with the pervasive optimism of enlightenment in the nineteenth century, and the equally widespread disillusionment with the idea of progress in the twentieth century.
