The Science of Social Adjustment

Abstract

IT needs no more than the painful experience of the Special Areas or a study of the social and industrial surveys of South Wales and Merseyside, with which the University of Liverpool and University College, Cardiff, have recently been associated, to demonstrate how sadly we need to develop a science of social adjustment. If under this new title Sir Josiah Stamp had merely given us his earlier valuable addresses on the calculus of plenty and the impact of science upon society, we might have welcomed this book for its further stimulus to much overdue action in this field. He has, however, done more. The theme of his recent presidential address to the British Association has been expanded by rearrangement and additions, and with the revised lectures on eugenic influences in economics and on the calculus of plenty, we are given three successive chapters in which his argument is continuously developed until he comes to consider in the final chapter some projects for research.

The Science of Social Adjustment

By Sir Josiah Stamp. Pp. vii + 174. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1937.) 7s. 6d. net.