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SOCIOLOGY AND MODERN SOCIAL PROBLEMS
BY
CHARLES A. ELLWOOD, PH. D.
Professor of Sociology, University of Missouri

PREFACE
This book is intended as an elementary text in sociology as applied to
modern social problems, for use in institutions where but a short time
can be given to the subject, in courses in sociology where it is desired
to combine it with a study of current social problems on the one hand,
and to correlate it with a course in economics on the other. The book is
also especially suited for use in University Extension Courses and in
Teachers' Reading Circles.
This book aims to teach the simpler principles of sociology concretely
and inductively. In
Chapters
I to VIII the elementary principles of sociology are stated and
illustrated, chiefly through the study of the origin, development,
structure, and functions of the family considered as a typical human
institution; while in

Chapters

IX to XV certain special problems are considered in the light of these
general principles.
Inasmuch as the book aims to illustrate the working of certain factors in
social organization and evolution by the study of concrete problems,
interpretation has been emphasized rather than the social facts
themselves. However, the book is not intended to be a contribution to
sociological theory, and no attempt is made to give a systematic
presentation of theory. Rather, the student's attention is called to certain
obvious and elementary forces in the social life, and he is left to work
out his own system of social theory.
To guide the student in further reading, a brief list of select references
in English has been appended to each chapter. Methodological
discussions and much statistical and historical material have been
omitted in order to make the text as simple as possible. These can be
found in the references, or the teacher can supply them at his discretion.
The many authorities to whom I am indebted for both facts and
interpretations of facts cannot be mentioned individually, except that I
wish to express my special indebtedness to my former teachers,
Professor Willcox of Cornell and Professors Small and Henderson of
the University of Chicago, to whom I am under obligation either
directly or indirectly for much of the substance of this book. The list of
references will also indicate in the main the sources of whatever is not
my own.
CHARLES A. ELLWOOD.
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
: THE STUDY OF SOCIETY

CHAPTER II
: THE BEARING OF THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION UPON
SOCIAL PROBLEMS

CHAPTER III
: THE FUNCTION OF THE FAMILY IN SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

CHAPTER IV
: THE ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY

CHAPTER V
: THE FORMS OF THE FAMILY

CHAPTER VI
: THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE FAMILY

CHAPTER VII
: THE PROBLEM OF THE MODERN FAMILY

CHAPTER VIII
: THE GROWTH OF POPULATION

CHAPTER IX
: THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM

CHAPTER X
: THE NEGRO PROBLEM

CHAPTER XI
: THE PROBLEM OF THE CITY

CHAPTER XII
: POVERTY AND PAUPERISM

CHAPTER XIII
: CRIME

CHAPTER XIV
: SOCIALISM IN THE LIGHT OF SOCIOLOGY

CHAPTER XV
: EDUCATION AND SOCIAL PROGRESS
INDEX

SOCIOLOGY AND MODERN SOCIAL PROBLEMS

CHAPTER I
THE STUDY OF SOCIETY
What is Society?--Perhaps the great question which sociology seeks to
answer is this question which we have put at the beginning. Just as
biology seeks to answer the question