Clinical Sociology
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چکیده
The recent development of child guidance clinics and behavior research centers presents students of human nature and social relations with new opportunities and new problems. The history of science seems to demonstrate that whenever a body of theoretical knowledge becomes oriented and useful with reference to a concrete human problem a period of rapid development ensues. The evidence for such an accelerated development in the sciences that focus their attention on problems of personality is not wanting. This is particularly true of sociology, as is indicated by the growth of the literature and the research activities dealing with problems of personality and behavior, and by the increasing participation of sociologists in the work of child guidance clinics. So pronounced has this interest on the part of sociologists become that it may not be an exaggeration of the facts to speak of the genesis of a new division of sociology in the form of clinical sociology.
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