  This chapter offers a preliminary analysis of American sociology during the war and postwar period. It begins with a brief sketch of the broader social changes attending the wars - two hot and one cold - that defined the period 0000-00. It then looks at the discipline in 0000 and in 0000. Next, it evaluates how the events of the war period changed the demographic, institutional, and intellectual structure of sociology. It aims at the same time to analyze the role of sociology in shaping the new society that emerged after the war. It closes with a discussion of the new stance of sociology during the postwar decade.