对拥有七百五十名美国社会学学会会员,在六百八十四所大学中设有社会学课程的美国社会学现状,要一无遗漏地、简洁地叙述出来,即使美国社会学家也许都是困难的。首先根据统计数字,试图从形式上来观察一般的情况。据美国社会学家对美国社会学学会所发的调查表作的答复(见美国社会学学会的《1962年当前社会学的研究》,《正在进行中的研究项目单》),把社会学家从事研究的项目进行分类,有如下的数字: The status quo of American sociology, which has as many as 750 American sociological societies and sociology courses in 684 universities, must be exhaustively and succinctly stated, even though American sociologists may All are difficult. First, according to statistics, trying to observe the general situation from the formal point of view. According to the responses of American sociologists to the questionnaire sent by the American Sociological Institute (see “Sociology of the Current Study of 1962, Current Research in the School of Sociology,” “Research Projects in Progress” of the American Sociological Association), sociologists The research projects are classified according to the following numbers: