Sociology and the World Crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5248276 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert C Angell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1951 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 749 |
| Publication date | 1951-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2087501 |
| OpenAlex | W2327723716 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
M Y choice, six months ago, of the subject of this address involved a definite risk. Events might have robbed it of most of its pertinence. I am not implying that the outbreak of a third world would render sociology powerless to make vital contributions to the planning and development of a world order, but only that the situation would then be so changed as to call for contributions of a different kind. It is almost certain that at the end of a third global conflict either the Cominform group of nations or the North Atlantic group would emerge with world power firmly in its grasp. The problem then would be to foster accommodative processes both among the various peoples subject to the world authority and within the structure of that authority itself. Only thus could sanguine rebellions be avoided. The problem that has to be faced in the present circumstances is quite different. There is no effective world authority. The real foci of power are national states clustered into two blocs. They are jockeying for advantage by political and military means. If this jockeying is not to lead to a global or at least to a cold war lasting for generations-and I assume that none of us
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| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1955 - 2026 (72) |
| Highly cited | No |