Part I. Introduction W.E.B. Du Bois and the Scientific Study of Society: 1897-1914
Part II. The Scientific Study of Society and Social Problems
2. The Study of the Negro Problems
3. The Scope of This Study and the Problem
4. The Twelfth Census and the Negro Problems
Part III. Social Structure and Social Processes
Culture and Socialization
5. Strivings of the Negro People
Religion and Social Structure
7. The Function of the Negro Church
8. The Negro Church in Atlanta
9. The Negro Race in the United States of America
10. Social Classes and Amusements
11. The Causes of Crime and Poverty
12. The Extent of Negro Crime and Some Conclusions
Part IV. Dimensions of Inequality
13. The Negro American Family and Sexual Morals
14. The Social Life of Country and City Families
15. High School Education and the Outlook for Negro American Students
16. The College-Bred Negro American
17. Faults and Accomplishments of Industrial Schools
18. The Economics of Emancipation and the Occupations of Negroes
19. Negro Family Income in Philadelphia's Seventh Ward
20. The Negroes of Farmville, Virginia
21. The Health of Negroes
22. Negro American Physicians
23. The Relations of the Negroes to the Whites in the South
24. Race Friction between Black and White
25. Sources of the Negro Population
26. Mortality among Negro Americans
27. The Black North in 1901: Boston
28. The Negro as He Really Is
29. The Atlanta Conferences
30. Resolutions and Conclusions on Crime, Health, Work, Education, and Morals
Bibliography of Du Bois' Early Sociological Works
Selected Further Readings on Du Bois' Early Sociological Work
