Types of Farmers' Attitudes

Abstract

A problem in research which illustrates the needs of the combined efforts of specialists in the several fields of social science and social work is that of the whole field of public welfare as a technical part of democracy's efforts towards social guidance. Involved in this field especially are the efforts of the professors of political science, of the practical students of government, of the specialist in governmental research, of the sociologist, of the social psychologist, and of the social worker. Here is a task of integrating political and social theory with practical government and social work. This problem is discussed briefly in the search after values in this issue of SOCIAL FORCES, and it might well be considered also as a field to which well prepared dissertations for graduate degrees in the universities might contribute. A similar field for research which offers a more or less new approach is that of adult education and community organization correlated in some such way as the American Association for Adult Education is planning to consider at its first annual meeting from May I5-I9 at Cleveland. Such problems, of course, include primarily the whole field of adult population from the university alumnus to the foreign born and illiterates. SOCIAL FORCES has studied this problem in previous issues from the viewpoint of attempting to bridge the distance between scholar and technician on the one hand and the lay population on the other.-EDITORS.