The Middle Class Male Child and Neurosis

tion and the Society for the Advancement of Management should focus attention on the problem. Seminars and forums should develop the field. Above all, there should be an active effort to advance the scientific aspects of the field by research of the kind which current sociologists could not do without increased participation. There should be much greater circulation between industry and departments of sociology similar to the exchange which accelerated after I932 between government and universities. Joint committees of sociologists and of professional managers should sketch concrete details of courses of action. A greater emphasis upon industrialism as the dynamic core of our society would help to reorient and integrate much of the scientific materials of social pathology, criminology, employment, class, social power, folklore and personality, and would revitalize the roles sociologists play. It would encourage a heartier interest among sociologists in participation in the work of the world, which is so largely industrial and commercial in our society. The risk of loss of objectivity could and should be protected by close fraternity between the detached and the participating sociologists, and by circulation between the two roles. The current frustration easily observable among sociologists that they are not being consulted about matters they have spent their lives studying would respound to this therapy. A scientific understanding of relevant human affairs, and the citizen's ability to cope with the great current issues may both be increased, and less disasterous results than have been evident in recent decades may be expected to follow. Perhaps, a little later, sociologists and other social scientists may have added enough to their own professional stature and to the public's estimate of that stature that they may be entrusted with a role in such great affairs as the relations between states, where quite patently the course of history is made by the visible acts of men or more often by the failure to act.