SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGICAL RADICALISM 5 social sciences (and humanities) is chiefly due to the fact that the social scientist is being reduced to the status of what Peter Berger calls "an aide-de-camp to an IBM machine."7 In the Service of Imperialism With the phenomenal growth of its monopoly and finance capital, the United States of America has finally emerged as a super-imperialist power after the Second World War. And sociology, like the west European and American spy fiction, has actively served the cause of U S imperialism with the utmost ease, for the utilization of sociology(and sociologists)!^ the American monopoly capitalist ruling class for its imperialist foreign policy objectives are but an extension of the basically statusquoist and counterrevolutionary bourgeois class character of sociology; and the growth of US imperialism has greatly contributed to the economic and 'academic' growth of sociology in America and abroad. Most American sociologists may safely be presumed to be intelligent enough to know it, but Arnold Green is remarkably candid: If the United State? Government seeks to establish close economic, political and military affiliation with countries and peoples all over the globe, then we (sociologists) must know more than we do about those countries and their peoples. What are their cultures ? What are the prevailing attitudes toward the United States, toward technological development ? [Mark the curious equation between "attitudes toward the United States" and "toward technological development/'] What beliefs and prejudices of theirs can be enlisted to draw them into our power orbit and what ones will have to be mollified or accepted before this can be done ? What are the prevailing social class structures, the focal points of leadership ? Whose co-operation is most crucial before various programmes are launched ? After such pro-grames have been started, continuing answers to all these questions must be carefully gathered and checked.8 Indeed, Project Camelot and the abortive Himalyan Border Project were all U S counter-insurgency military and espionage operations, duly disguised as 'social science' research projects staffed with some prominent social scientists. II Textbook Sociology No printed manifestation of sociology is more revealing of its bourgeois class character than the American sociology textbooks (perhaps because a textbook deals with the essentials of a branch of study). And there are no exceptions—be it a classic like Maclver and Page's Society or Kingsley Davis's Human Society and Harry M Johnson's much hailed (for obvious reasons) Sociology: A Systematic Introduction. I will however take as an illustration Kimbell Young and Raymond W Mack^s Systematic Sociology (Litton Educational Publishing, Inc. (1962), Affiliated