ABSTRACT
The Second World Sociological Congress, organized by the International Sociological Association in Liege in 1953, almost gave the impression that the techniques of social research have been adopted by sociology everywhere-in Scandinavia, Japan, Israel, India, and Italy, as well as in the United States-and that, in fact, the two things are practically identical. The Soviet Union, and other countries of the Soviet bloc, had not so far been represented internationally, but in 1956 they all took part for the first time, and sent delegations to the International Sociological Congress in Amsterdam. An outstanding characteristic of the whole activity of the Polish sociologists is their very active and unmanipulated participation in all the current problems of their country. There are now three research sections on sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences, three sociological chairs at the University of Warsaw, two in Lodz and Cracow, one at the Catholic University of Lublin, and, most noteworthy, one chair at the Party University.
