ABSTRACT
In the New World, the popularity of sociology grew steadily from the ending of the war, and has been exceptional in Canada during the 1960s. Where sociology is concerned with larger themes, where it examines institutional behaviour in broad terms, where it considers civilisation as a whole, the approach of its practitioners is not political but academic, not committed but detached. Although the author of a famous work on caste entitled: Essai sur la regime des castes, he did little to present sociology as an organised body of knowledge. In the University of London the teaching of sociology continued on a small scale but with few practitioners, a situation which lasted till after the Second World War and which resulted in a chronic shortage of teachers of the subject when sociology at last gained admittance to other British universities. The main advance in the academic organisation of sociology came in the USA, where the early gains were consolidated.
