ETHNOGENICS--The Principles of Sociology-- PROFESSOR FH GIDDINGS 1896

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Boston Evening Transcript 20 Mar 1896, Fri • Page 6 

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The Principles of Sociology. 

     This volume, by Professor Giddings, of Columbia College, was prepared with special reference to the needs of university students, and differs from previous treatises on sociology in two important respects: first, in its account of the differentiation of social phenomena from phenomena of all other kinds; second, in its exclusion of topics that are properly economic or political rather than sociological. The work consists of four books, as follows: Book I. "The Elements of Social Theory:" Book II. deals with "The Elements and Structure of Society." with four subdivisions treating, respectively. of "The Social Population," "The Social Mind," "The Social Composition" and "The Social Constitution:" Book III. has for its subject "The Historical Evolution of Society," also in four parts, which treat of four stages of progress, namely: "Zoogenic Association." "Anthropogenic Association," "Ethnogenic Association." "Demogenic Association." Book IV. deals with "Social Process, Law and Cause." The doctrine of the historical chapters is that association was the cause of the evolution of human qualities in the transition from animal to man, and not vice versa, and, in like manner, that the dense populations of modern times have been made possible by the civil form of association. The fourth book deals with the relation of volition in society. and the attempt to realize social ideas, to physical causation working through natural selection. Published by Macmillan & Co. 

Boston Evening Transcript 20 Mar 1896, Fri • Page 6 

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