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IN these days, few scientific workers can afford to be indifferent to sociology, whether or not they are convinced as to the possibility of a science of society. Even if they are concerned merely in planning in its narrowest technical sense, planning presupposes some understanding of the structure of society and the intimate interrelation between social life and material techniques, and the inability to realize the importance of a sociological approach lies behind many of the gravest difficulties of our time, such as unemployment, the revolt against democracy, mechanized or commercialized leisure, and blind resentment towards science because the benefits it was expected to bring have either not materialized or largely been missed. In this volume, Dr. Rumney indicates for the general reader not only the content of sociology, but also its possibilities as a practical instrument no less than for theoretical purposes.
The Science of Society
An Introduction to Sociology. By Dr. J. Rumney. Pp. 125. (London: Gerald Duckworth and Co., Ltd., 1938.) 3s. 6d. net.
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B., R. Miscellany. Nature 144, 195 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144195c0
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