Civics: as Applied Sociology

The work outlines a practical program for applied sociology focused on cities and regions, arguing that systematic social survey should inform civic service. It promotes a geographic, river-basin approach that traces settlement and economic patterns from source to sea and insists that local observation, statistical record, and experimental civic laboratories be coordinated as sociological observatory and laboratory. It connects population studies with civic improvement, proposes parallel concepts for political structure, and offers a methodical analytic framework—environment, conditions, organism translated into region, occupation, organization—so that civic workers can move from concrete survey to organized action.