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Under the auspices of UNESCO, social scientists of various disciplines and countries have held small meetings these past two years to discuss, plan and present research having to do with the general problem of peaceful co-existence. At the initial meeting, held in Geneva in 1956, it was decided to organize future sessions by academic discipline - meetings of economists, comparative jurists, of political scientists and sociologists. The sociologists' meeting was held in Moscow, January 6th to 12th, 1958. The International Sociological Association organized it; the Institute of Philosophy of the Soviet Academy of Science was host.

A sociologist from The Institute of Philosophy, Soviet Academy of Sciences, seeks to dissever the special traits of sociology in his country. The comments are from a bibliography and review of Soviet sociology for 1960-2.

There are new aquatic vistas for sociology in the unsurveyed lives of mariners, fishermen, and skindivers. Why do some societies send their people down to the sea while others do not? Why are some cultures content to fish, while others range afar for commerce and conquest? If marine agriculture is to counter the population explosion, what social skills and forces will bring it about? Clark Cameron, a long-time sailor and student of the Far East, is with Opinion Research Corporation of Princeton. He has organized a new Institute for International Marine Research which, hopefully, will lead to some of the consequences outlined in this futuristic article.