Studies of Family Living in the United States and Other Countries

Excerpt from Studies of Family Living in the United States and Other Countries: An Analysis of Material and Method

For sometime the Social Science Research Council has been con cerned with the research needs and possibilities in the related fields of consumption and leisure. These fields offer an unusual opportunity for cooperative scientific effort because of the very comprehensiveness of their problems.

The council's first investigations in these fields were initiated by Wesley C. Mitchell. In the spring of 1931 an interim committee on consumption and leisure was appointed under the chairmanship of the present writer. 2 Very early In the committee's work it became apparent that an intelligent appraisal of the research needs In this area of investigation must begin by ascertaining what has already been discovered concerning consumption through the many studies of family living made In the United States and In other countries.

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Fragment din Studii privind viata de familie in Statele Unite si alte tari: o analiza a materialului si a metodei Pentru un timp, Consiliul de cercetare in stiinte sociale s-a preocupat de nevoile si posibilitatile de cercetare din domeniile conexe ale consumului si timpului liber. Aceste domenii ofera o oportunitate neobisnuita pentru eforturi stiintifice de cooperare, din cauza intelegerii problemelor lor. Primele investigatii ale consiliului in aceste domenii au fost initiate de Wesley C.