The psychology of human society : an introduction to sociological theory / Charles A. Ellwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellwood, Charles Abram, 1873- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (495 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

psychology of human society

Place of Publication:

New York : D Appleton & Company, [1925]

Summary:

"In the main, the method of the book is the method that has been called that of the "participant observer." The book should be used by the student, therefore, as a sort of laboratory manual, its generalizations to be tested so far as possible by the observation of social groups with which the student has had experience. Illustrative material will also be found, however, in written history, in anthropological books, and in works in sociology, especially in my elementary text, Sociology and Modern Social Problems. Such qualitative analysis of the determinants in group behavior is necessary before quantitative analysis can be fruitfully undertaken"-- Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

The study of the group

Group life and organic evolution

Group life and mental evolution

Primary group life : the forms of human association

The unity of the group and group action

The continuity of the group and its culture

Changes within the group : normal

Changes within the group : abnormal

Instinct and group life

Intelligence and group life

Imitation and group life

Feeling and group life

Social order

Social progress

The nature of society

Humanity as the ultimate group.

Notes:

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