SECTION B SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 



(Hall 15, September 23, 10 a. TO.) 



CHAIRMAN: PROFESSOR CHARLES A. ELLWOOD, University of Missouri. 

 SPEAKERS: PROFESSOR WM. I. THOMAS, University of Chicago. 



PROFESSOR EDWARD A. Ross, University of Nebraska. 

 SECRETARY : PROFESSOR E. L. HAYES, Miami University. 



THE Chairman of the Section of Social Psychology, was Pro- 

 fessor Charles A. Ellwood, of the University of Missouri, who in- 

 troduced the speakers of this Section with the following remarks: 



" Ladies and gentlemen: Those of us who are interested in the 

 development of this most important part of sociology may con- 

 gratulate ourselves that an entire section meeting has been given 

 to it upon the programme of this Congress. It is safe to say that if 

 this Congress had been held ten years earlier no such recognition 

 would have been accorded to social psychology. We may certainly 

 congratulate ourselves, therefore, upon the progress of our science. 



" I wish to call attention to the fact that this section on social 

 psychology is placed under sociology, and not under psychology. 

 This means of course that the officers of this Congress thought 

 that in any working classification of the sciences social psychology 

 must be considered as a section of sociology rather than as a section 

 of psychology. Before introducing the speakers, I would like there 

 fore to raise the question whether the name 'social psychology' 

 is a happy one. I would much prefer the name 'psychological 

 sociology.' I suppose there is not much in a name, but I feel that 

 the term ' social psychology ' is misleading, in that it fails even to 

 suggest that the subject covers nearly three fourths of all that is 

 discussed under the head of ' general sociology.' But I must not 

 enter further upon this discussion, as the question raised will doubt- 

 less be dealt with adequately by the speakers of this Section. 



"I have now the pleasure of introducing the first speaker, Pro- 

 fessor W. I. Thomas, of the University of Chicago, who will speak 

 on 'The Province of Social Psychology.' " 



