Currents from Chicago and the Impact of American Sociology around the World: A Discussion of Papers Presented to the American Sociological Association by Mary Jo Deegan, Connie D. Frey, Helena Z. Lopata, and Marlene Shore.

Information about several papers discussed at a session on currents from Chicago, Illinois and the impact of U.S. sociology around the world, that were given before the American Sociological Association, are presented. The papers presented ventures into the history of sociology and emphasizes its effort as a discipline to confront the realities of war and peace, poverty and wealth, nationalism and imperialism, dominance and subornation and to define the role of sociology and sociologists in the face of these realities.