Report of the American Organizing Committee for the Fifth World Congress of Sociology, 1962.

The article reports about plans for the Fifth World Congress of Sociology, sponsored by the International Sociological Association, to be held in Washington D.C. between September 2 and 8, 1962. The major topics to be discussed are, "Sociologists, Policy Makers and the Public," "The Sociology of Development," "The Nature and Problems of Sociological Theory." The general plan is to have the main paper on each of the three major themes published in advance in two volumes of the "Transactions." The World Congress will follow immediately upon the meetings of the American Sociological Association and will also be held in the Shoreham. Two generous grants have been made in support of the Congress, one of $50,000 from the ACLS-SSRC Committee administrating a Ford Foundation grant, and one of $25,000 from the National Science Foundation. These monies will be largely used to defray the travel cost of foreign scholars who are preparing papers. It has been hoped that the presence of scholars from abroad may be facilitated teaching opportunities in American universities either before or after the Congress.