CONTENTS

PART ONE—INTRODUCTORY
CHAP. PAGE
I.[Characteristics of Social Life]1
II.[Unorganized Group Life]16
PART TWO—LIFE IN THE FAMILY GROUP
III.[Foundations of the Family]24
IV.[The History of the Family]29
V.[The Making of the Home]37
VI.[Children in the Home]42
VII.[Work, Play, and Education]51
VIII.[Home Economics]60
IX.[Changes in the Family]67
X.[Divorce]74
XI.[The Social Evil]81
XII.[Characteristics and Principles]88
PART THREE—SOCIAL LIFE IN THE RURAL COMMUNITY
XIII.[The Community and Its History]91
XIV.[The Land and the People]99
XV.[Occupations]104
XVI.[Recreation]108
XVII.[Rural Institutions]115
XVIII.[Rural Education]120
XIX.[The New Rural School]127
XX.[Rural Government]136
XXI.[Health and Beauty]144
XXII.[Morals in the Rural Community]151
XXIII.[The Rural Church]156
XXIV.[A New Type of Rural Institution]162
PART FOUR—SOCIAL LIFE IN THE CITY
XXV.[From Country To City]169
XXVI.[The Manufacturing Enterprise]180
XXVII.[The Industrial Problem]186
XXVIII.[Exchange and Transportation]201
XXIX.[The People Who Work]212
XXX.[The Immigrant]221
XXXI.[How the Working People Live]230
XXXII.[The Diversions of the Working People]238
XXXIII.[Crime and Its Cure]248
XXXIV.[Agencies of Control]256
XXXV.[Difficulties of the People Who Work]263
XXXVI.[Charity and the Settlements]271
XXXVII.[Educational Agencies]280
XXXVIII.[The Church]287
XXXIX.[The City in the Making]294
PART FIVE—SOCIAL LIFE IN THE NATION
XL.[The Building of a Nation]300
XLI.[Economic and Social Functions of the People as a Nation]305
XLII.[The State]313
XLIII.[Problems of the Nation]324
XLIV.[Internationalism]333
PART SIX—SOCIAL ANALYSIS
XLV.[Physical and Personal Factors in the Life of Society]340
XLVI.[Social Psychic Factors]348
XLVII.[Social Theories]357
XLVIII.[The Science of Sociology]364
[Index]373


SOCIETY: ITS ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT

PART I—INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER I[ToC]

CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIAL LIFE

1. Man and His Social Relations.—A study of society starts with the obvious fact that human beings live together. The hermit is abnormal. However far back we go in the process of human evolution we find the existence of social relations, and sociability seems a quality ingrained in human nature. Every individual has his own personality that belongs to him apart from every other individual, but the perpetuation and development of that personality is dependent on relations with other personalities and with the physical environment which limits his activity.