SOCIOLOGY

ITS DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS

ITS DEVELOPMENT
AND APPLICATIONS

BY

JAMES QUAYLE DEALEY, PH.D.

PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE IN BROWN UNIVERSITY;
AUTHOR OF "THE STATE AND GOVERNMENT,'
" "GROWTH OF STATE
CONSTITUTIONS," "THE FAMILY IN ITS SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS,"
AND, CONJOINTLY WITH LESTER F. WARD, "A TEXT-
BOOK OF SOCIOLOGY."

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PREFACE

This work is an enlargement and revision of the author's Sociology issued in 1909. In it no attempt has been made to work out a system, a sufficient number of which already exist, or to set forth novel and untried hypotheses in social theory. The author has sought rather to give a sort of survey of sociological development, so that the reader interested in social problems, or the student desirous of a comprehensible statement of the main aspects of sociology, may have in fairly brief compass a general view of its rise and its relations to other sciences, a sketch of the development of social institutions, and a short discussion of social problems and of the factors to be considered in social progress.

The volume, as a textbook for college purposes, may be supplemented by more detailed studies and by personal investigations of social conditions on the part of the students. Its reading references, purposely abbreviated, may aid the general reader to follow more closely such aspects as may arouse interest. If both student and reader find the presentation of the subject matter fairly clear and helpful to an understanding of social questions, the purpose of the author will have been fulfilled.

At the present time the whole social world is in ferment as the result of the World War, and the economic and political aspects of European society are in transition, working towards readjustments. No one can foretell what the outcome will be in western civilization, but