Excerpt: Rural organization and sociology as a specialized field of subject-matter information and assistance is comparatively new in cooperative extension work in the United States. Sociology itself as a field of science has not had the attention that the physical, biological, and economic sciences have had. The idea of applied sociology is even newer than research and college resident teaching in this field. Considerable facts and theory about the social aspects of rural life have been built up during recent years, and the primary function of extension rural organization and sociology is to help others obtain and use information. The purpose of this leaflet is to describe briefly the present status of development of this newer extension work, giving attention to the kinds or information and assistance available, problems dealt with, and methods used.