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rural conditions in the light of knowledge of society with a view 

 to discovering and suggesting ways of improving them." 

 NEWELL SIMS, University of Florida. 



"Exposition of the social problems of rural life with sug- 

 gestions for home and neighborhood amelioration." G. CORAY, 

 University of Utah. 



"Rural sociology is, therefore, concerned with the way in which 

 farm people live together in their neighborhoods and as a 

 class. It has to do with the reactions of human character under 

 rural environment. It includes a description of the associated 

 efforts that minister to the common desires, needs and purposes 

 of farm folk. It covers the problem of 'better living/ of 

 'country life' as a whole. It emphasizes the large needs and 

 methods of the common life of rural people. It involves the 

 question of the permanence of a satisfactory rural civilization 

 and of the social agencies or institutions, necessary to such a 

 civilization." KENYON L. BUTTERFIELD, Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College. 



"The sociology of rural life is, roughly, then, the study of 

 the associated or group activities of the people who live in the 

 country viewed from the standpoint of the effect cf those activ- 

 ities on. the character of the farm people themselves. It recog- 

 nizes as the final term in the whole country-life enterprise the 

 farmer himself. It involves the consideration of the means, 

 agencies and methods by which the farmer can realize in himself 

 the best there is in human experience." A. R. MANN, Cornell 

 University. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 



Bibliography of Rural Sociology. Department of Sociology, Durham, 

 N. H., New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic 

 Arts, 1914. 



Country Life. Annals. Vol. 40, March, 1912. 



Fleischer, H. W. Essential Factors of Rural Sociology. Purdue Agri- 

 culturist, 11 : 14-16, January, 1917. 



Gillette, John M. Constructive Rural Sociology. Sturgis, N. Y., 1912. 

 The Scope and Methods of Instruction in Rural Sociology. Proceed- 

 ings of Amer. Sociological Society, 11 : 163-180, Univ. of Chicago 

 Press, 1917. 



Groves, Ernest R. The Social Value of Rural Experience. In his 

 Rural Problems of To-day, Chap. 6, pp. 89-102, Assn. Press., N. 

 Y., 1918. 



