A SYSTEMATIC SOURCE BOOK IN RURAL SOCIOLOGY EDITED BY PITIRIM A.
SOROKIN Professor of Sociology Harvard University CARLE C.
ZIMMERMAN Associate Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota
AND CHARLES . G A Lf I 1 Chief of the Division of Farm Populatjjo
aad Rural Life U. S, Department of Agriculture MINNEAPOLIS THE
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS 1930 DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
THEODORE ROOSEVELT WHO IN APPOINTING THE COUNTRY LIFE COMMISSION
DECLARED, THE GREAT RURAL INTERESTS ARE HUMAN INTERESTS AND GOOD
CROPS ARE OF LITTLE VALUE TO THE FARMER UNLESS THEY OPEN THE DOOR
TO A GOOD KIND OF LIFE ON THE FARM. DEDICATED ALSO TO SIR HORACE
PLUNKETT WHO GAVE TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC FORMULA,
BETTER FARMING, BETTER BUSINESS, BETTER LIVING, A DICTUM THAT
SUMMARIZES THE BASES OF THE COUNTRY LIFE MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED
STATES. DEDICATED ALSO TO LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY CHAIRMAN OF THE
COUNTRY LIFE COMMISSION, WHOSE DEEP INSIGHT INTO THE LIFE OF THE
AMERICAN FARMER SHAPED THE REPORT OF THE COUNTRY LIFE COMMISSION
INTO A DOCUMENT OF PRINCIPLES OUT OF WHICH HAS DEVELOPED RURAL
SOCIOLOGY IN THE UNITED STATES. PREFACE IN THE main these volumes
are self - explanatory and therefore need no preface. However, the
editors plan of the Source Bool was influenced to such an extent by
several considerations that they deem it wise to acquaint their
readers with some of the per sonal motives that lie behind the
work. The editors have been moved by the following considerations
Human society through out its history-in its origins, forms,
activities, processes, growth, evolution-has been so largely under
the pressure of agricultural and rural forces that up to the
present sociology as a science ofsociety has virtually been the
sociology of rural life. A world view of the sociology of rural
life is important for the develop ment of the science. In order to
balance the vogue of agricultural economics as an educational
discipline and a guide to public action in America, major emphasis
is now required upon a sound rural sociology. There is need that
the content of rural sociology, whether presented in texts or lying
in the popular mind, should contain facts of an indubitably
sociological character. There is need in the textual organization
of the facts of rural sociology for a resolutely scientific
methodology. In the training of American rural sociologists there
is need for a broad acquaintance with the rural sociological
thought and theory of Europe and Asia. And, finally, in this era of
American teaching, research, and extension of rural sociological
facts and theory and in this period of experi mental agrarian
legislation, a systematic source book world-wide in scope is
timely. Now let us discuss these points very briefly. A glance at
the bases of general sociology shows the importance of the rural
world in the present development of human society. This importance
is due, not to the well-known fact that the greater part of the
human race is still agricultural and rural, but to the fact that
the dominance of industrial forces and the prestige of the city are
relatively a matter of yesterday and that rural habit is still the
core of human behavior the world over. Rural sociology in America
has grown to large proportions, in a night as it were, on soil
prepared by agricultural science. It is not to be marveled at that
textbooks in rural sociology in America vii viii SOURCE BOOK
INRURAL SOCIOLOGY are still quite provincial, not even being
developed on the geo graphic basis of the entire country.
Agricultural sciences, such as soil chemistry, bacteriology,
horticulture, and entomology, have the benefit of European
experience. It is scarcely necessary to state that rural sociology
needs to benefit from similar world experience...
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