PAPERS READ IN SECTION J. 



1.— SOCIOLOGY IN AUSTRALIA : A PLEA FOR ITS TEACHING- 



By PROFESSOR FRANCIS ANDERSOX, M.A., University of Sydnev. 



(abstract) 



The aim of the paper is not to deal with any special problem, but 

 with the general importance of Sociology as the new science of 

 Society. 



Biology was the science of the nineteenth century ; sociology 

 seems destined to be the science of the twentieth century. Society 

 is now being roused to a sense of its own importance and of the 

 need of social security through social efficiency and social justice. 

 The new science deals with the laws and processes of society in the 

 making, and Australasia is a new society in the making. The 

 material in Australia for sociological investigation is abundant, 

 and it attracts every year students from European and American 

 Universities, but there is no school of sociology in any Australian 

 University, or apparently any expert capable of taking charge 

 of one. 



The duty of establishing a Chair of Sociology in the national 

 University is incumbent on the national Government. Provision 

 for the teaching of the new science is required, not only in the 

 interest of the advancement of knowledge, but in order to 

 supplement and broaden the intellectual discipline at present 

 available to University students. 



2.— THE SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF EDUCATION. 



By C. H. NORTHCOTT, B.A. 



(abstract) 



Along with the evolution of Society there has come a gradual 

 divergence of the subject matter of education from the conditions 

 obtaining in real life. In the earliest days the cliild's share in 

 social life — in the fishing and hunting at any rate — constituted his 

 education. Later on the social customs and practical activities 

 of the farm and guild workshop still supplied the bulk of the 

 education. To-day, however, the social co-operation and social 

 oversight of the simpler stage have been replaced by the isolation, 

 exclusiveness, and disciplinary laxity of family life in the city 

 The situation has also been complicated by industrial conditions. 

 The " blind-alley" occupations liave produced a vast army of 

 youths whose education at the age of manhood, and viewed from 

 the standpoint of social adaptation and efficiency, can be described 

 only as a hollow sham. Nor are those who enter trades better off. 

 Minutely subdivided labour has become monotonous and makes 

 small demands upon the intelligence of the worker. 



