Sociology: An Analysis of Life in Modern Society

📓 The subtitle of this book, "An Analysis of Life in Modern Society" is a precise indication of its content and focus of attention. Two questions were kept constantly to the fore: Where is modern American society now as a result of where it has been? Where is it likely to go as a result of where it is now? A definitive answer to the latter, of course, cannot be supplied by the sociologist. But a cautious statement of probabilities within the broad range of present trend lines, it could at least be argued, is the sociologist's supreme task. If it be further argued that the primary purpose of an elementary sociology textbook is to aid the student in acquiring an understanding of his own society, then that task cannot be avoided even at this level.