The scientific study of human society / by Franklin Henry Giddings.

  • Giddings, Franklin Henry, 1855-1931.
Date:
1924
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    PREFACE My purpose in this book has been to indicate wherein and to what extent Sociology is in¬ dubitably a scientific study of Human Society, and how it can be made more rigorously so. To this end I have undertaken to describe strict methods that sociology can avail itselfof, and to point out precautions and limits which must be observed in the use of each. While the book is not a treatise on sociology and makes no claim to be, it necessarily formu¬ lates the fundamental sociological problems, and sets forth the more important sociological generalizations that admit of verification. Use of the book as a text should be preceded by a short introductory course, concrete and elementary; but I hope that it will meet the need for a rounding out and clinching work. Indeed, to be quite frank, I think that it ought to be used for that purpose until it is superseded by a better book in its field. At present it is the only work of its kind. I do not believe tha.t a student has mastered the essentials of soci¬ ology, not to mention wealth of detail, until he has become acquainted with the subject matter to which these pages are devoted, whether he