Sociological Societies

SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETIES. The societies listed below are those of the widest appeal in sociology and allied subjects. Allied subjects (Economic Science, Statistics, Law and Educa tion) are included and the chief institutions for research into these subjects will be found below.

The international societies are the

Association Internationale pour le Progres des Sciences Sociales and the Congres Interna tional de Statistique, which first met at Brussels in 1853. Both have issued Comptes rendus. The Inst. Internat. de Sociologie (1893) has its headquarters at Paris. The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (1857) had united with it in 1864 the Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law. It held a yearly migratory meeting, and published Transactions (1858, etc.) and Social Science (1866, etc.). The Sociological Soc., the Eugenics Education Soc. and the Roy. Economic Soc. are es tablished in London. The Royal Statistical Society (1834), in corporated 1887, publishes a Journal (1839, etc.) ; Cobden Club (1866), for the diffusion of the political and economical principles with which Cobden's name is associated, has issued a variety of publications; Institute of Actuaries (incorp. 1884) ; Institute of Chartered Accountants (188o) ; Institute of Bankers (1879); the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors (1885), and the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, also meet in London.

There are also the Manchester Statistical Society (1833), with Transactions; the Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland and the Scot tish Society of Economists (1897), both meeting at Edinburgh; and the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland (1847), with a Journal, at Dublin. After the INNS OF COURT (q.v.), the most important of British legal societies is the Law Society (1827, incorporated 1832, reincorp. ; it began courses of lectures for students in 1833, and was appointed registrar of solicitors ten years later, and obtained supplementary charters in 1845 and 1878. The Selden Society, established in 1887 for the promotion of the study of the history of law, prints ancient records. The headquarters of the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations are in London, but conferences are held in various continental towns. The Chartered Institute of Patent Agents (founded 1882, incorporated 1891) issues Transactions. The Juridical Society of Edinburgh (i773) published five editions of a Complete System of Conveyancing. The Ascham Society was founded in 1879 for the improvement of educational methods., and the Society for the Development of the Science of Educa tion (1815) issued Transactions.