(1) The Development of Sociology (2) Control in Human Societies (3) Ideology and Utopia

Abstract

CURRENT interest in the co-ordination of views on the social responsibilities of scientific workers gives topical interest to these three volumes. From different angles they are all concerned with the contribution which science could offer to the solution of social problems, and more especially with the conditions and principles of scientific thought in this field. In turn they give us a broad historical survey of the subject, a practical study suggestive of lines of research and a stimulating contribution to original thought on the underlying principles of social theory and discipline. (1) The Development of Sociology By Prof. F. N. House. (McGraw-Hill Publications in Sociology.) Pp. viii + 456. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc., 1936.) 24s. (2) Control in Human Societies By Prof. J. Dowd. (The Century Social Science Series.) Pp. xvii + 475. (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co. Inc., 1936.) 16s. net. (3) Ideology and Utopia: an Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge. By Karl Mannheim. (International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Knowledge.) Pp. xxxi + 318. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd. ; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1936.) 15s. net.