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Russell Sage Foundation. New York, 1918-20.
(5) _Americanization Studies of the Carnegie Corporation of New York._ Edited by Allen T. Burns. 10 vols. New York, 1920-21.
(6) Chapin, F. Stuart. _Field Work and Social Research._ New York, 1920.
C. _Studies of the Individual_
(1) Healy, William. _The Individual Delinquent._ Boston, 1915.
(2) Thomas, W. I., and Znaniecki, F. _The Polish Peasant in Europe and America._ "Life Record of an Immigrant," Vol. III. Boston, 1919.
(3) Richmond, Mary. _Social Diagnosis._ Russell Sage Foundation. New York, 1917.
IV. PERIODICALS
(1) _American Journal of Sociology._ Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1896-.
(2) _American Sociological Society, Papers and Proceedings._ Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1907-.
(3) _Annales de l'inst.i.tut international de sociologie._ Paris, M. Giard et Cie., 1895.
(4) _L'Annee sociologique._ Paris, F. Alcan, 1898-1912.
(5) _The Indian Journal of Sociology._ Baroda, India, The College, 1920-.
(6) _Kolner Vierteljahrshefte fur Sozialwissenschaften._ Leipzig and Munchen, Duncker und Humblot, 1921-.
(7) _Rivista italiana di sociologia._ Roma, Fratelli Bocca, 1897-.
(8) _Revue del'inst.i.tut de sociologie._ Bruxelles, l'Inst.i.tut de Sociologie, 1920-. [Successor to _Bulletin del'inst.i.tut de sociologie Solvay_. Bruxelles, 1910-14.]
(9) _Revue internationale de sociologie._ Paris, M. Giard et Cie., 1893-.
(10) _The Sociological Review._ Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, 1908-.
[Preceded by Sociological Papers, Sociological Society, London, 1905-7.]
(11) _Schmollers Jahrbuch fur Gesetzgebung, Verwaltung und Volkswirtschaft im deutschen Reiche._ Leipzig, Duncker und Humblot, 1877-.
(12) _Zeitschrift fur Sozialwissenschaft._ Berlin, G. Reimer, 1898-.
TOPICS FOR WRITTEN THEMES
1. Comte's Conception of Humanity
2. Herbert Spencer on the Social Organism
3. The Social Process as Defined by Small
4. Imitation and Like-mindedness as Fundamental Social Facts
5. Social Control as a Sociological Problem
6. Group Consciousness and the Group Mind
7. Investigation and Research as Ill.u.s.trated by the Pittsburgh Survey and the Carnegie Americanization Studies
8. The Concept of the Group in Sociology
9. The Person, Personality, and Status
10. Sociology in Its Relation to Economics and to Politics
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
1. What do you understand was Comte's purpose in demanding for sociology a place among the sciences?
2. Are social phenomena susceptible to scientific prevision? Compare with physical phenomena.
3. What is Comte's order of the sciences? What is your explanation for the late appearance of sociology in the series?
4. What do you understand by the term "positive" when applied to the social sciences?
5. Can sociology become positive without becoming experimental?
6. "Natural science emphasizes the abstract, the historian is interested in the concrete." Discuss.
7. How do you distinguish between the historical method and the method of natural science in dealing with the following phenomena: (a) electricity, (b) plants, (c) cattle, (d) cities?
8. Distinguish between history, natural history, and natural science.
9. Is Westermarck's _Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas_ history, natural history, or sociology? Why?
10. "History is past politics, politics is present history." Do you agree? Elaborate your position.
11. What is the value of history to the person?
12. Cla.s.sify the following formulas of behavior under either (a) natural law (social law in the scientific sense), and (b) moral law (customary sanction, ethical principles), (c) civil law: "birds of a feather flock together"; "thou shalt not kill"; an ordinance against speeding; "honesty is the best policy"; monogamy; imitation tends to spread in geometric ratio; "women first"; the Golden Rule; "walk in the trodden paths"; the federal child-labor statute.
13. Give an ill.u.s.tration of a sociological hypothesis.
14. Of the following statements of fact, which are historical and which sociological?
Auguste Comte suffered from myopia.
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
