Introduction to Sociology (Classic Reprint)

The present volume is not intended as a systematic reconstruction of the principles of sociology, even in outline. I ts aim is rather practical. Several classes of students to-day are directing more and more attention to the science of society, with the purpose of finding a mdre scientific basis for their work. The minister would infuse religion into the social relations of every-day life, and seeks to understand society, which he would make Christian. Touched with a deep sense of human woe, ethical reformers find that material aid and education, and even friendship, cannot meet the wants of the individual, but that they must learn to know society, and work through society, in order to help the man. The effort to administer charity wisely; the effort to make criminals into men, and to prevent men from becoming criminals; the effort to develop a sounder municipal life in our cities, and a truer political sentiment in our nations these are but some of the lines of work in which men to-day are driven to study the science of society, in order that they may not do harm where they would do good.
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