Experiment Station Record, Volume 57, July-December, 1927 Page: 5
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1927] EDITORIAL 5
tana to South Carolina and embracing nearly all of the active Purnell
projects in rural sociology. From the U. S. Department of Agriculture,
the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and the Office of Experiment
Stations sent three members of their staffs. The Institute
of Social and Religious Research, Western Reserve University,
University of Chicago, and other colleges, theological seminaries,
institutions, and agencies were also represented.
An important part of the program centered around the presentation
and discussion of the current station projects. Each of these
projects was taken up in turn to show the nature of the problem, the
methods being followed, the difficulties encountered, and the results
thus far obtained. This critical analysis was followed by a discussion
and reference to a special committee. Four of these committees
were organized, each with a personnel embracing all members with
projects along that line. A report was made by each committee to
the general meeting, discussed in detail, referred back to the committee
for the incorporation of such suggestions as had been agreed
upon, resubmitted to the general body, and after further discussion
adopted. In this way the individual projects received minute critical
scrutiny, and oportunity was also presented for consideration
of broad general principles and the most effective methods and
procedure.
Another feature of the institute was the more formal presentation
of topics dealing with subject matter and research methods. In all
seven addresses were presented, mainly by men of recognized authority
in sociological research. These addresses covered such topics as
the use and limitation of a statistical method in rural social research,
scientific methods in urban research, a comparison and relation of
economic and social research, research on the American village, the
fundamentals of scientific research in rural sociology, a historical
analysis of methodology in rural social research, and the relation of
research in rural sociology to agricultural extension work.
Opportunity was also afforded for general discussion of the problems
confronting rural sociology workers. Among the topics which
were taken up in this way were the training of research workers, the
publication of findings, the need for more detailed data to be gathered
by the U. S. Census bearing on farm population and farm
statistics, and future plans to further the effectiveness of rural social
research.
One of the specific undertakings of the institute was the consideration
and restatement by special committees of the projects which
had been tentatively outlined for inclusion in a national research
program in rural sociology. As a result a number of recommendations
were made along each of the four lines.
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United States. Office of Experiment Stations. Experiment Station Record, Volume 57, July-December, 1927, book, 1928; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5099/m1/22/: accessed April 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.