EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY: SOME COMPARISONS.

The most complete internationalism so far achieved by mankind is the internationalism of knowledge. Nations may differ widely on questions of religion, trade, and politics; their interests may clash over colonies, territories, boundaries, and markets; their opinions may diverge on policies of migrations and tariffs but when it comes to developments in science, the emergence of theories of philosophy, or the enrichments of literature and the arts, the possessions of one nation quickly become the possessions of all. This article is intended to deal with some contrasting phases of sociology as it is developed today in Europe and U.S. If its title seems to imply that Europe is a homogeneous whole with respect to this subject, the impression should be corrected. Each country that has developed any considerable body of sociological writing has, of course, within the larger unity above mentioned, developed distinctive characteristics of its own; and there is room for an extended discussion of contrasting phases of sociology among the several European countries themselves.