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Around 1950 an attempt was made in some Latin Amer countries to introduce modern sci'fic, empirical sociol. At that time, sociol had long been taught in Latin America; some countries had U chairs in sociol long before many European nations. The campaign to introduce sci'fic sociol entailed: (a) having sociol accepted as a theoretical sci, empirical in nature, subject to rules similar to those of the other sci's & thus conceived very diff'ly from what had hitherto been the case; (b) establishing suitable instit's for the training of professional sociol'ts; (c) setting up a suitable org for the permanent task of sociol'al res; & (d) modernizing the teaching of sociol, which generally existed only as one of the subjects in the course of study of law or the humanities. There were, however, many obstacles to this campaign to instit'ize sociol & many still exist today. One way to overcome them was to offer an image of sociol in which the need to study it & the advantages it offered tended to be exaggerated. However, instit'ization & res have made progress, despite the following difficulties: (1) the poor system of COMM between sociol'ts; (2) the discontinuity of activities within the same res centers; (3) the tendency to model training after that in North America which conflicts with the need to study phenomena occurring solely in Latin Amer society; & (4) the almost permanent state of crisis from which many Latin Amer U's are suffering as a consequence of the general crisis of Latin Amer society. Implanting sci'fic sociol requires a serious break with intellectual tradition & a certain unity among its practitioners re its meaning & the line to follow. M. Maxfield.