RARE comprehensive collection of fifty two papers in social science methodology divided into nine sections: 1.The Delimitation of Fields of Inquiry. 2.The Definition of Objects of Investigation. 3.The Establishment of Units and Scales. 4.Attempts to Discover Spatial Distributions and Temporal Sequences. 5.Interpretations of Change as a Developmental Stage. 6.Interpretations of Temporal Sequences with Consideration of Special Types of "Causation". 7.Interpretations of Relationship among Unmeasured Factors. 8.Attempts to Determine Relations among Measured but Experimentally Uncontrolled Factors. 9.Attempts to Determine Quantitative Relations among Measured and Experimentally Controlled Factors. [AUTHORS]: McQuilkin DeGrange, Frank Knight, W.Y.Elliott, Philip Klein, Porter R.Lee, R.M.Ogden, J.Mattern, M.S.Handman, Robert E.Park, Heinrich Klüver, Calvin P.Stone, L.E.Truesdell, William F.Ogburn, Joseph Peterson, K.C.McMurry, V.C.Finch, Raoul Blanchard, A.L.Kroeber, Robert H.Lowie, Leslie Spier, Sidney B.Fay, Edward Sapir, Floyd H.Allport, Dale A.Hartman, Merle E.Curti, Carl Stephenson, William L.Langer, Henry E.Bourne, Jean Pommier, Francis A.Christie, F.Schevill, Henri Pirenne, Stuart A.Rice, H.D.Lasswell, Z.C.Dickinson, F.N.House, Kimball Young, E.H.Sutherland, R.S.Woodworth, H.R.Kemp, Fay-Cooper Cole, R.T.Bye, J.D.Black, H.Schultz, John M.Clark, L.L.Thurstone, and others. Appendixes and indexes also included. 235x165mm. XIV+822 pages. Red cloth Hardcover with black lettering. Cover slightly scratched, rubbed and age-stained. Cover corners and spine edges bumped. Spine faded/yellowed and slightly stained. Pen inscription on front whitepage upper corner. Binding slightly loose and visible between pre-title and title pages. Pencil underlining/notes near text on some pages. Text block edges slightly age-stained and dirty. Pages yellowing. Else in good condition.