Citation

Duncan HG, Duncan WL. Am. J. Sociol. 1934; 39(5): 649-656.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1934, University of Chicago Press)

DOI

10.1086/216560

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The approaching crisis between the North and the South caused the latter to make a desperate effort to create a social philosophy that would be consistent with sectional interests. A few of these writers conceived the idea of applying the principles of the newly created subject of sociology to the local situation. Although made to underwrite the Southern cause, sociology moved in the direction of a more scientific development, and produced the earliest known works in English to bear sociology in their titles.