Societies Around the World

Abstract

In the past, geographers and sociologists have made rather strange bedfellows. The geographers have accused the sociologists of overlooking certain important climatic and physiographic factors in the explanation of social phenomena; the latter have looked upon human geographers, especially the followers of Ellsworth Huntington, as naive monists who seek to fit all data into altogether too narrow a mould of preconception. At the University of Kentucky, by force of fortunate circumstances, the geographers and the sociologists found themselves working out a joint course which could be chosen by freshmen or sophomores to satisfy the lower-division social-science requirements. (At present, other courses which may be chosen instead are American civilization or European civilization, taught jointly by the political science and history departments.) In planning this course, which was titled Societies Around the World, a threefold purpose was kept in mind:

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