 While he was teaching at Columbia, Rugg became a spokesperson for the reconstructionist perspective, which viewed formal education as an agent of social change.His views were widely distributed, and Rugg has been credited with consolidating social sciences and creating a curriculum for the consolidated subject.He created the first series of an educational book, "Man and His Changing Society", which was a junior high school social studies textbook that ran 14 volumes from 1929 until the early 1940s.