Sociology in the United States

Abstract

IN the United States, students of racial questions have the advantageor disadvantage according as it is regardedof finding their problems very much at their doors. This undoubtedly is responsible for a characteristic realism in approach, which finds extreme expression in a marked addiction to questionnaires, but, at the same time, is not always conducive to academic calm and detachment in discussion. As might be expected, however, anything in the nature of racial feeling is commendably absent from the papers which compose this volume. On the other hand, more than half the contents is taken up with the consideration of conditions which directly affect the United States, specific problems in the social structure of to-day. This is not without significance in a book which is intended for a wider public than the professional audience to which the papers were originally addressed.

Race and Culture Contacts

Editor: E. B. Reuter. Contributors: Romanzo Adams, W. O. Brown, E. Franklin Frazier, Max Handman, Asael T. Hansen, J. O. Hertzler, Charles S. Johnson, Andrew W. Lind, R. D. McKenzie, Robert E. Park, John A. Rademaker, Edward B. Reuter, Jesse Frederick Steiner, Clark Wissler. Pp. viii + 253. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1934.) 18s. net.