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"This book is one of the inductive studies referred to in the preface to my Foundations of Social Science. It offers an analysis of the attitudes and beliefs that enter into our rural heritage. This is a psychological study and I treat only that part of the rural heritage that is susceptible of psychological analysis. This book will be followed by one on the expansion of rural life, which will show the rural heritage in process of adaptation to new conditions. The two books depict one great process of social development and I shall occasionally refer to them together as "this work." The last chapters of this book suggest psychological points of view for an interpretation of rural life but are not intended as a systematic interpretation. These books are concrete, descriptive, analytical. Our rural heritage is by no means a subject of merely historical interest. It is a living thing to-day. Modified by the unprecedented changes of the past fifty years it still is the psychological basis of rural civilization, and, as such, constitutes a good part of the psychological basis of our national life. A study of it is, therefore, of great practical importance, as well as of scientific interest. In these books I amplify the treatment of the field of social psychology begun in previous books. Rural social psychology logically comes first in a survey of social psychology. For the study of custom logically precedes the study of variations from custom, and rural life is particularly favourable for the study of the psychology of custom. Furthermore, the study of the psychology of agricultural organization logically precedes that of industry, business and the professions. For agriculture was once the prevailing occupation and rural attitudes have affected business, industrial and professional behaviour to such an extent that we need to delineate the attitudes and beliefs of the rural population as a preparation for the study of business, industry and the professions. This book, therefore, logically precedes my Foundations of Social Science and my Principles of Social Psychology. It should be useful not only to those who teach the social sciences but also to teachers of history who wish to give their students some insight into the processes of history. This is a book for students and for the general reader. A previous knowledge of social psychology is not necessary in order to understand it. To assist the reader who would follow out lines of thought of the text, I have given citations to works on social psychology and rural life. These are given, not to lend authority to the text but to assist critical study"--

Social psychology.