SOVIET EVALUATION OF AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY.

The article presents Soviet evaluation of the sociology of the U.S. It states that among sociologists in the U.S. the psychological conception of society is dominant. This conception is characterized by, first, putting forth the assertion of definite psychological qualities, proper so to speak to all peoples of all periods, which constantly activate emotions and form the content of the mass psyche and secondly, these so-called psychic traits and properties are put forward as impelling motives of the conduct of people, as the basis for emergent social movements, of historical events. Partisans of the "psychological conception" attempt on the one and to set forth the capitalist order as if it were the one which most corresponds to the "primordial properties of the human psyche," for example to the "feeling and instinct for property," on the other hand they attempt also to explain defects and ulcers of capitalism as properties of the human psyche. The conclusion is then drawn that only by the removal of these defects in the human psyche will come deliverance from all evils and afflictions.