TOWARD A CODE OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS FOR SOCIOLOGISTS: A HISTORICAL NOTE.

The Council of the American Sociological Association, in its January 1967 meeting, had empowered Charles P. Loomis as President to appoint such a committee to consider those issues currently in the center of while interest the emphasis of the Committee should be on the sociologists role as scientist and researcher, not as practitioner. As a President, Loomis and the Council were trying to speed up the modernization of the Americans Sociological Association. After reviewing and considering various possible procedures, Loomis agreed to try to present the problem personally at the forthcoming meetings of each of the regional sociological organizations. Fortunately, they were able to do this, though there was but little time for preparation. Officers of the several groups were uniformly friendly and cooperative in helping and carrying out the plans of decentralized approach to the membership of the American Sociological Association, even though membership in a regional society is not at all perfectly correlated with membership in the national organization.