THE TEACHING OF SOCIOLOGY IN UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

Since the Second World War there has been a considerable increase and expansion in the teaching of sociology almost everywhere in the world. This process takes different lines, sometimes, new or additional chairs are established and an increasingly wide range of subject matter is included in the teaching, thus giving the student greater latitude in his choice and combination of studies. In other cases, sociological courses are introduced at teaching institutions or departments not originally offering such studies, for example, departments of engineering, medicine, architecture, city and regional planning. This development can be explained only by a number of factors, some of which may operate jointly, the need for a rational understanding of social change taking place in many countries today, the collection of factual information on the social process in order to be able to control and influence changes in social structure, the need for sociologically trained personnel for the teaching and other professions, especially those mainly concerned with, or influenced, by social changes.