An Introduction to Sociology. By Ernest R. Groves Research Professor of Social Science in the University of North Carolina. Longmans,  Green and Company, New York. 1928. Pp.  568.

This volume on sociology is written primarily as a textbook for college and normal school students, as well as for others interested in the subject of the social thought of the day. The author aims to give the student a clear and comprehensive survey of social thought and experience, in accord with the present mode of human and psychic factors in social phenomena. An outstanding feature in this work is the comparative

interpretation of the social experience of the child and the savage. In the child, he follows the development of the socialization of the individual as it occurs in the growing personality which in adulthood takes on the cultural experiences of the training. In the savage, the experiences remain at an elemental level. Professor Groves is not only a sociologist but also a psychologist with a good understanding of psychiatry, which is a necessary attribute in logical sociological thinking since mental hygiene has now become one of the most important phases of sociology with ramifications into the various strata of society today, and is one of the social sciences which must be accorded its place in the scheme of human relations. The arrangement of the volume, including an introduction, is divided into VII Parts, which are subdivided into chapters, complete and inclusive, on the subjects discussed. The appendix is well adapted to the student. The author provides an extensive bibliography, selected from a variety of sources.

Parts II, Man and His Social Equipment; III, Man and His Social Experience; IV, Man and His Social Organizations; V, Man and His Social Failures; VI, Man and His Social Resources, such as Play, Art, Science, and Education, and also Social Adequacy and Social Progress, and VII, Development and Field of Sociology.

Part V, Man and His Social Failures, is subdivided into chapters dealing with forms of social problems, causes of social problems, social problems and public policy, criticism and defense of philanthropy, prevention of social fa