Excerpt from Sociology for Schools

The social sciences have served their period of apprenticeship and have now reached a stage where they are slowly but surely developing into a very definite science of human relations. The youngest of the social sciences is sociology. From a frail, indefinite subject it has gradually developed into a field of study which is not only concrete but also very useful.

One of the more important criticisms of the work in sociology, as it is now taught, is directed at the overemphasis of the abnormal aspects of the social order and an accompanying underemphasis of normal social relations in these courses. Society has both a normal and an abnormal aspect and a correct approach to the study of sociology emphasizes both.

This book is specifically designed to introduce the student to the science and art of human relations, to build upon the knowledge he has acquired in civics, and to aid him in gaining concrete and definite knowledge of major social problems. Another major purpose of the book is to aid the pupil in developing logical and scientific ways of studying and thinking about social problems.

Social problems cannot successfully be treated apart from history, civics, economics, biology, and psychology. Consequently, wherever possible, an attempt has been made to correlate the treatment of the social problems with the subject matter of these fields.

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