Synopsis Teaching of social studies in schools is the subject matter of this book. The book is written keeping in mind the needs of teachers in social studies subjects like history, civics, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, etc., in schools. All-purposive social study must be motivated and directed by a conception of need. Otherwise, it cannot be purposive. With what needs, or rather whose needs, should the social studies be concerned--the needs of the social order or the needs of individual persons? With both, of course, and through the division of labour, that is, through institutions and persons. But the school can meet the needs of institutions only through meeting the needs of their individual constituents. It is needful individuals, not needful institutions, that the teacher confronts.