SOCIOLOGY A TEXTBOOK OF READINGS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE BY CLARENCE MARSH CASE, A. M., PH. D. " PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA OF IOWA; SOMETIME PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND SOCIAL ICIO NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY TH PREFACE HIS book is the product of the school-room, and is designed to meet the actual requirements of classes, as suggested by the writer's experience in teaching sociology. The volume is planned to provide full work for a college or university class reciting three times a week during a semester of eighteen weeks, where used as the only text; and for a year's work where used in conjunction with some other text-book. If it is found desirable to shorten the course, the first chapter of Part I. may be omitted; also some of the chapters of Parts I. and IV. The General Introduction is addressed principally to the teacher and general reader, rather than to the student, and may be omitted. The chapters are in most cases of such length that they constitute each a separate, single assignment; and where too long for this they divide into two assignments of similar length. The usual number of pages covered is that which experience with students has shown can be mastered by them when carefully analyzing materials of the kind here presented. This statement applies to the work regularly assigned for the whole class, leaving special reports on the Additional References after each chapter to be assigned according to the capacity and needs of the particular class or student. The Additional References are supplied for this purpose, while the Exercises are designed to furnish a basis for general class discussion. The present volume may be used as a source-book in connection with any standard sociology text-book; or it will serve as the classtext for those teachers who believe, with the present writer, that a stimulating way to teach sociology is to place the materials from authoritative sources, either with or without a regular text-book, directly in the hands of the student. This is the method which the writer has used for many years with satisfactory results. There are of course others who have pursued the same method, particularly the staff at the University of Chicago, as reflected in the notable text-book, An Introduction to the Science of Sociology, by Professors Robert E. Park and Ernest W. Burgess. In addition to the increased interest and vitality lent by this method to the work of the class-room, the use of a book of readings solves a great and growing difficulty faced by librarians in attempting to serve classes from which considerable collateral reading is required. When no accounting for such reading is exacted by the instructor little harm, or good, results. But where class discussions are based upon the collateral reading, as is most highly desirable, the pressure upon the school library becomes heavier than can be met. In the case of the smaller schools even single copies of the assigned books, magazines, or pamphlets are often lacking; while in the larger institutions the number of students in the course becomes too large to be served satisfactorily even by the use of duplicate copies of the various titles. The use of a book of readings, such as the present volume, seems to be the only solution for both these difficulties. At the same time it releases the single copies of miscellaneous titles for use by those making research and preparing special reports. There is no attempt, in this general introductory text-book, to present bibliographies on any phase of the subject. That is left for books which treat intensively more limited portions of the field, and of these there are splendid examples to be easily obtained. For the more theoretical discussions of Part I., here entitled Social Evolution, Professor T. N. Carver's Sociology and Social Progress is valuable. For Part II., the Source Book for Social Origins, by Professor W. I. Thomas, is the highest authority, and is equipped with exhaustive bibliographies. An Introduction to the Science of Sociology, by Professors Park and Burgess, contains the most complete materials for Social Processes; while, for Part IV., extremely valuable materials and bibliographies will be found in Professor A. B. Wolfe's Social Problems, and in Social Problems and Social Policy, by Professor James Ford. In the present volume, the Additional References at the end of each chapter are given, without any effort at bibliographical completeness, for actual use by the class, and are usually accompanied with some comment aiming to indicate the nature of the passages referred to. They cite, in most cases, standard works to be found in most libraries, while the less available sources are quoted in the Readings. The list of titles at the end of the volume is placed there, with publishers' names, purely for the convenience of teachers and others who may wish to order the books referred to. It makes no pretense to being a bibliography of the subject. My debt to many writers and publishers is specifically acknowledged in connection with each selection quoted, but I wish to emphasize it here, and to say that I have taken the liberty to include their discussions under captions of my own choosing in many instances, and to eliminate their foot-note references in all cases. I do not believe, however, that I have done violence to the thought of any writer. I take this opportunity to express my appreciation for the hearty encouragement and valued suggestions of Professor Emory S. Bogardus, Professor William E. Smith, and others of my colleagues in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California. The librarians to whom I have had occasion to apply for many favors have been helpful and efficient. I wish to mention Miss Grace Wormer, at the library of the State University of Iowa; Miss Grace M. White, of the Sociology Department of the Los Angeles Public Library; and Miss Charlotte M. Brown, with her assistants, in the library at the University of Southern California. The counsel and assistance of my wife has been so unremitting, varied, and helpful that she might be regarded, with justice, as virtually joint author of the book. CLARENCE MARSH CASE |