Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences

In the making of the Encyclopaedia we have had three purposes in mind. In the first place it is intended to provide for the scholar a synopsis of the progress that has been made in the various fields of social science in the broadest sense of the term. The student of any particular science should not only find here factual and methodological information of value, but will also have his attention called, perhaps in a hitherto unusual way, to the relation of his own science to the other disciplines involved. What is probably more important at this time, when such rapid advance is being made in more or less untrodden paths, the Ency¬clopaedia may be expected to serve as an incentive to the votaries of the younger and more inchoate sciences in order to bring to fruition what is now only in germ.

Secondly, the Encyclopaedia will, it is hoped, appeal to a much more numerous class which for lack of a better term might be called the intelligentsia in the various countries. It ought to furnish an assemblage or repository of facts and principles which will subserve the interests of all those who are keeping abreast of recent investigation and accomplishment. It is for this reason that we have made every effort to keep the articles free from all scientific jargon. Finally, amid the welter and confusion of modern thought, it has been our hope that the Encyclopaedia would constitute a center of authoritative knowledge for the creation of a sounder and more informed public opinion on the major questions which lie at the foundation of social progress and world development. — THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.

Editorial Board and Contributors include the major figures in the 20th Century Social Research. These include scholars like Franz Boas, John Dewey, Alfred Kroeber, J. M. Keynes, R. H. Tawney, Ruth Benedict, John Maynard, Brovislaw Malinowski, Margret Mead, Joseph Needham, Edwin Sapir and many more academic luminaries

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Academic
FRANZ BOAS
WALTER WHEELER COOK
JOHN DEWEY
JOHN A. FAIRLIE
CARTON J. H. HAYES
JACOB H. HOLLANDER
ALVIN JOHNSON
WESLEY C. MITCHELL
JOHN K. NORTON