THIRTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY TO BE HELD AT RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, DECEMBER 27 AND 28, 1918 TENTATIVE PROGRAM General Subject: Sociology and Education (Participants in the meeting will be expected to observe the time limit of twenty minutes for each regular paper; ten minutes for each prearranged discussion; and five minutes for each informal discussion.) FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27 9:00 A.M. Meeting of the Executive Committee. 10:00 A.M. 2:00 P.M. Session on "Sex and Race Aspects of Education." "Ideals and Methods in the Social Education of Women," ANNA GARLIN SPENCER, Meadville Theological School. Discussion: DR. LUCILE EAVES, Boston; DR. MARION TALBOT, "Racial Assimilation as an Educational Process," ROBERT E. Discussion: U. G. WEATHERLEY, University of Indiana. Session on "Sociology in the Common Schools." 'Sociology in the Education of Teachers," F. R. CLOW, State Normal School, Oshkosh, Wis. "Sociological Background of the Vocational Concept," JOHN M. GILLETTE, University of North Dakota. "Social Education in the Schools through Group Activities," WALTER R. SMITH, State Normal School, Emporia, Kan. Discussion: MONROE N. WORK, Tuskegee Institute; F. STUART CHAPIN, Smith College; HENRY W. THURSTON, New York School of Philanthropy; Ross L. FINNEY, State Normal School, Valley City, N.D. 8:00 P.M. Joint Session with the American Statistical Association. Presidential Addresses by CHARLES H. COOLEY, president of the American Sociological Society, and WESLEY C. MITCHELL, president of the American Statistical Association. 9:00 A.M. 10:00 A.M. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28 Annual Business Meeting of the American Sociological Society. "Extension Teaching of Sociology in Communities," CECIL C. NORTH, Ohio State University. "Sociological Education of Rural People," JOHN PHELAN, Massa- Discussion: J. L. GILLIN, University of Wisconsin; W. S. BITT- 2:00 P.M. Round Table on "The Teaching of Sociology to Undergraduates," led by A. J. TODD, University of Minnesota. 4:00 P.M. Joint Session with the American Economic Association on Social and Economic Theory. (Fifteen-minute papers.) 8:00 P.M. "The Place of Economic Theory in an Era of Readjustment," J. M. CLARK, University of Chicago. "The Economic Interpretation of History," W. F. OGBURN, Reed College. "The Institutional Approach to Economic Problems," W. W. STEWART, Amherst College. "The Relation of Social to Economic Theory," WESLEY C. MITCHELL, Columbia University. Session on "National Aspects of Education." "The National Spirit in Education," E. A. Ross, University of Wisconsin. "Education and the National Ideal," L. M. BRISTOL, West Virginia University. "The American Spirit and the Organization of Middle Europe,” H. A. MILLER, Oberlin College, Director of the Democratic MidEuropean Union. Discussion: JULIA C. LATHROP, Children's Bureau; FRANKLIN H. GIDDINGS, Columbia University; ALBION W. SMALL, University of Chicago. The headquarters of the Society in Richmond will be the Hotel Jefferson. Because the session is crowded into only two days the usual social functions will be omitted this year. The other societies meeting at the same time and place are American Statistical Association and American Economic Association. NEWS AND NOTES UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI Professor Jesse F. Steiner has been granted leave of absence for the year to accept the position of director of educational activities of the American Red Cross with headquarters in Washington. Mr. Frederick Thrasher resigned his position as acting professor of sociology in De Pauw University to accept the position of director of the Cincinnati Home Service Institute and assistant professor of political and social science in this university. COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK Professor Maurice Parmelee, recently of this College, has been in London since April, acting as representative for the United States War Trade Board on various international committees. He has been elected chairman of the Allied Rationing and Statistical Committee, and is the only American who has been appointed to a committee chairmanship in England. Professor Parmelee may be addressed in care of United States Embassy, London, England. HAVERFORD COLLEGE Associate Professor Frank D. Watson is spending part of his time. as director of the Pennsylvania School for Social Service. OBERLIN COLLEGE Professor H. A. Miller has been granted leave of absence for the year, in order to devote his time to the organizing of the League of Central European Slavic Nations to oppose the aims of Austria and Germany. His work in promoting this movement during the past months has had remarkable success and has contributed in no small measure to disintegration of the Austria-Hungarian Empire. His headquarters will be in Washington. Dr. W. M. Burke, of Occidental College, has charge of the work in sociology for the year. REVIEWS Social Process. By CHARLES H. COOLEY. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918. Pp. 430. $2.00. Readings in Industrial Society. By LEON C. MARSHALL. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1918. Pp. xxiv+1082. $3.50. Readings in the Economics of War. By J. MAURICE CLARK, WALTON H. HAMILTON, and HAROLD G. MOULTON. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1918. Pp. xxxi+668. $3.00. Each really good book that has appeared recently in either of the social-science fields has in its own way advertised how far today's conceptions of problems and of adequate ways of treating them have moved from those of day before yesterday, and each has increased the probability that today's formulations and methods will turn out to be at least equally distant from those of day after tomorrow. Each of the works named above is a book that must be pronounced unequivocally good in its way. Each is a book which not alone craftsmen in its particular division of technique cannot afford to ignore, but with which present standards of intelligence demand that every scholar in social science shall make himself familiar. The obvious reason for mentioning these books together is that each of them grades up to this general estimate. A few words about each of them in turn will add all that is necessary to this appraisal. No American sociologist needs to be told that Professor Cooley does not publish unless he has something to say. Those who are best acquainted with his earlier books will be both surprised and gratified that his present message is from an area of observation in which few knew him to be interested. The nature of his findings too tends to create or to confirm impressions that the sociological field is far from fully prospected. He has driven a shaft in a new direction through rich deposits. It was not so very long ago that the very phrase "social process" called out vigorous protests from cautious sociologists who could not rid themselves of the prejudice that "process" must always be simply and solely mechanical process, just as other sociologists had refused to see that the concept "social organism" did not necessarily mean simply and solely biological organism. The first distinct thought of the present writer after looking through the Table of Contents of Professor Cooley's book was: This is another body blow to the vanishing conception of sociology as a system like a clock-a part for every function and a function for every part. The thought followed: What would happen if one should attempt to articulate the contents of this book with the things which we might all regard as now taken for granted in the writings, say, of Ward, Giddings, and Ross? Surely a system-maker's coherence could not be fabricated in that way any more than a science of the conventional sort could be organized out of the tests and measurements taken in turn by laboratory psychologist, chemist, and athletic director. Perhaps a synthetic conception will come some time to organize the types of analytic results which at present defy unified construction, but at present we are forging ahead by giving ourselves all the freedom we want to find out how many different aspects there are of group phenomena. Possibly it will appear before long that we are farther from enumerating them all than the chemists were in numbering all the "elements" a generation ago. But these are a methodologist's reactions, and Professor Cooley is very much more than a methodologist. Even the casual reader could hardly run over one of his pages selected at random without a sense of being in somewhat novel contact with life as it is. The book will take a place among specialists, both as a sample of fine workmanship and as a demonstration of a technique which each master-workman must add to his equipment. To intelligent laymen with social curiosities the book should be fascinating. There are more resemblances than we can indicate between the three superficially unlike books which we have grouped together. Professor Marshall's volume might be described as Exhibit X in proof of the proposition that economic theory and economic pedagogy have swung into a new period as different from its immediate forerunner as the stage following Adam Smith was from that which preceded. From the viewpoint of the sociologists the outstanding peculiarity of this latest phase of economic thinking is its unashamed return from predominating pursuit of abstractions to frank recogition that economic activities are not something as detached from literal men as is "the State" of German theory; that economic activities are rather the behaviors of human beings with reference to their economic interests, while they are at the same time adjusting their economic interests to all their other interests. Perhaps |