SEX AND SOCIETY 
STUDIES IN THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX 
By WILLIAM I. THOMAS 
Associate Professor of Sociology in the 
University of Chicago 
320 pages, I2mo, cloth; net $1.50, postpaid $1.65 
WHILE this subject is one of the most important and fascinating 
in the field of knowledge, it is recognized that it occupies an 
unsettled and unscientific position among social-psychological ques- 
tions. There is little doubt that these studies do more than any- 
thing yet published to place the question on a scientific basis. 
The comparative method and the genetic standpoint have been 
used, and the analysis of the historical relation of woman to society 
and of the social changes which have influenced her status make it 
possible in the last chapters to discriminate between the points in 
the character of woman which are innate and those which are adven- 
titious in their character, and to suggest the means by which she 
may realize herself more completely and naturally. The studies are 
based both on anthropological-ethnological materials and on per- 
sonal studies of the writer among various strata of society, and the 
subject has not before had so frank and at the same time so scientific 
a handling. 
The results presented are a notable contribution, not only to 
sociological, but to educational theory. The anthropological and 
ethnological materials used will be new to the general reader, and 
the book will be of particular interest to intelligent women. 
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