An Introduction to Study of Society (Classic Reprint)

Although this book is the first of its kind, the demand for it has been created by earlier American expounders of social relations. A syllabus of sociological method, printed in 1889 for the use of his students, by one of the authors of this Manual, was mentioned by President E. B. Andrews in a widely circulated article upon the literature of Sociology. From the terms in which numerous readers of the article requested copies of the I ntroduction, it was apparent that interest in scientific exposition of society was more general than the author had supposed. It is impossible to apportion credit for the new social impulse in the United States, but it is fair to say that the sources of influence most frequently mentioned in the correspondence referred to were the writings of Dr. Samuel W. Dike, Professor Richard T. Ely, and Professor Franklin H. Giddings. During the last five years attention to specific social problems has become more general, and at the same time there has arisen an effective demand for guidance in the investigation of sociological as distinguished from social problems. Conspicuous among the signs and agencies of this change have been the Introduction to Social Philosophy, by Mr. J. S. Mackenzie; two papers by Professor Giddings, The Province of Sociology, published in 1890, andS ociology as aU niversity Study, which appeared in 1891 ;the sociological department of the Andover Review, under the editorial direction of Professor, now President, Tucker, and the writings of Professor Lester F. Ward.
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