THE PROFESSION: REPORTS AND OPINION.

In 1942, researchers Raymond Kennedy and Ruby Jo Reeves Kennedy reported on a survey of sociology courses in American colleges. They asserted that by inquiring into what sociologists actually teach in their main field of pedagogical endeavor, the undergraduate colleges, they would find an answer to what sociologists teach. Accordingly, a survey of sociology courses listed in college catalogues for the years 1939 to 1941 was conducted. A comparable survey, performed fifteen years later, provides clues about the changes, the war and post-war developments in the discipline, which are reflected in current curricula. In 1942, the seven highest ranking courses namely general sociology, social problems, marriage and the family, social work, criminology, research methods and social psychology constituted 51 per cent of the total offerings in sociology and joint sociology and anthropology departments. In 1957, these seven, but with anthropology replacing research methods, constituted 52.3 percent of the total offerings. The rise in anthropology from between ninth and tenth to first place may be a result of the multiplication of anthropology courses in joint departments, for the authors are now totaling the offerings of an entire discipline, including its introductory courses, and comparing that figure with thirty-one subdivisions of another discipline.