Why did the cultural center of sociology shift from Europe to America?

1, the economic center of gravity shifts, and the American economy rises.

2. Because of World War I and World War II, many famous sociologists moved to the United States, which promoted the development of American sociology.

Because all classes and races coexist in the United States itself, it is a natural laboratory for studying sociology.

The United States was originally an environment of free competition, and its culture was very inclusive. At that time, it was on the rise of science, education and culture. The participation of these world-class intellectual elites can be said to be even more powerful and quickly climbed to the commanding heights of global science and culture.

The successful experience of absorbing European intellectual refugees has made the United States taste the sweetness. Since then, the United States has formed a more conscious mechanism for opening up science and education, opening its doors to global intellectual elites, to exchanges and immigrants, to young talents around the world, and to studying abroad and employment. This is one of the secrets that the United States has maintained its leading position in the world since World War II.

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Because all fields of human activities are formed under the influence of social structure and individual system, with the development of society, sociology further expands its research focus to other related disciplines, such as medical care, military or criminal systems, the Internet, and even the role of scientific knowledge development in social activities.

On the other hand, the scope of social science methods is getting wider and wider. Since the mid-20th century, diversified language and cultural changes have also produced more and more explanatory and philosophical social research models.

Before 1970s, sociology only existed in several European countries where it originated. From the mid-1970s, it was first introduced into the United States, and then the major countries in the world introduced sociology into their own countries, either through the United States or directly from Europe, until the outbreak of World War II, which was the period when European sociology spread and developed all over the world.

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