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On the family, education, and war, selected writings. / Edited, and with an introd., by William J. Goode, Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., and Larry R. Mitchell.
LIBRA HM51 .W17
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waller, Willard, 1899-1945.
- Series:
- Heritage of sociology
- The Heritage of sociology.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 359 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1970]
- Summary:
- This volume is the first unified presentation of Waller's writings, covering in depth his work on family, education, and war. It also includes discussions on social problems such as crime and on the conflict between insight and scientific method.
- Contents:
- On Charles Horton Cooley.
- Insight and scientific method.
- Social problems and the mores.
- Addendum to the philosophy of history.
- Critical notes on the cost of crime (with E. R. Hawkins)
- The rating and dating complex.
- Bargaining and exploitative attitudes.
- Courtship as a social process.
- Marriage solidarity.
- Marriage conflict.
- Problems of the divorcé.
- Notes on the transformation of the teacher.
- The school as a social organism.
- The school and the community, I.
- The school and the community, II.
- Teaching as institutionalized leadership.
- What teaching does to teachers.
- A principal reason why institutions do not function.
- Notes on higher education.
- War and the mores.
- The Army as a social institution.
- The veteran comes home.
- The veteran's attitudes.
- The bibliography of Willard Waller (p. 355-359).
- ISBN:
- 0226871525
- OCLC:
- 141904
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