ABSTRACT
The United States will be obliged to participate in a decisive way in the rehabilitation of chaotic Europe in general, and of its rural life in particular. This task is inextricably connected with the political problems related to the penetration of the Soviets and their collective farms into central and southeastern Europe. In the United States neither feudalism nor collective farms existed except in the South and in a few remote sectarian groups. This chapter places importance on the views of Max Weber, who was very familiar with the United States, its economic and sociological viewpoint, through his studies and travels, and was, therefore, able to compare the Old and New Worlds. He is primarily a rural sociologist. Max Weber investigates and describes the sociological phenomena arising out of this traditionalistic feudalism, such as the special concept of honor and luxury, the denial of the calculating and capitalistic mentality, and the refusal to be involved in trade.
