R120116, 2Nov53, Carl C. Taylor (A) Rural sociology.

Introductory sociology, by Charles H. Cooley, Robert C. Angell & Lowell J. Carr.

Principles of rural-urban sociology, by Pitirim Sorokin and Carle C. Zimmerman.

Community backgrounds of education; a textbook in educational sociology.

Cultural sociology.

Comte rates the efforts of political economy very low, with the exception of the work of Adam Smith, and will not let them pass as a preparation for scientific sociology, holding that they are based on false abstractions.

Civic sociology; a textbook in social and civic problems for young Americans.

THE POSITIVE SCHOOL OF CRIMINOLOGY I. My Friends: When, in the turmoil of my daily occupation, I received an invitation, several months ago, from several hundred students of this famous university, to give them a brief summary, in short special lectures, of the principal and fundamental conclusions of criminal sociology, I gladly accepted, because this invitation fell in with two ideals of mine.

He felt obliged to believe in something, to devote to the defence of some ideal all the faith in his character, to make some use of that fervour of proselytising which had been so much admired in the class of eloquence in the seminary, and so revolutionary sociology took possession of him.

This aspect of planetary sociology may be illustrated by the rise and decline of total membership in the human family.

According to him, history is worth nothing unless it is "an indirect sociology," an account of how human beings have learned, so far as the world has yet learned the lesson, to co-operate with one another, a study of the growth of society and what helps and hinders.