Elaborates the matters in rural-urban knowledge. Lines out the fields overlapping rural-urban matters: sociology, social class, population, public health, urbanization and suicide, longevity and martality, birth rate and vitality, and intelligence.

Textbook on principles of inductive rural sociology, with particular reference to sociological aspects of farm organisation and rural development in the USA - covers demographic aspects, internal migration (incl. Rural migration to urban areas), family and social structures, land settlement, land tenure, systems of agriculture, education, religion, social participation, social integration, social change, etc. Bibliography pp. 501 to 539 and statistical tables.