Publication of the American Sociological Society, Volumes 4-6American Sociological Society., 1910 - Sociology List of members in v. 1, 5-25, 28 (supplemental list in v. 26-27) |
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... factor in American civilization . It was prophesied that " with the passing of the free lands a vast extension of the social tend- ency may be expected in America , " and the prophecy has come true . The part of this movement with which ...
... factor in American civilization . It was prophesied that " with the passing of the free lands a vast extension of the social tend- ency may be expected in America , " and the prophecy has come true . The part of this movement with which ...
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... factors of a social population lies in the fact that they are reflected in social feeling and impair the sense of social solidarity , thereby affecting co - operative efficiency . Race conflicts , religious wars , and persecutions , and ...
... factors of a social population lies in the fact that they are reflected in social feeling and impair the sense of social solidarity , thereby affecting co - operative efficiency . Race conflicts , religious wars , and persecutions , and ...
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... factors coadapted . Now the democratic ideal enforces co - operation as a social goal . In a large sense co - operation is the social goal - although we must generously understand that co - opera- tion as a human social ideal is to be ...
... factors coadapted . Now the democratic ideal enforces co - operation as a social goal . In a large sense co - operation is the social goal - although we must generously understand that co - opera- tion as a human social ideal is to be ...
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... factors in the explanation . There is no third reality to be called " interactions , " apart from activities and the relations between activities by which they condition each other . The tendency to describe society , our object of ...
... factors in the explanation . There is no third reality to be called " interactions , " apart from activities and the relations between activities by which they condition each other . The tendency to describe society , our object of ...
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... factors . So it is , all through the field of sociology , and one of the profoundest mistakes to which the sociologist is liable is the failure to grasp the fact that two propositions which appear diametrically opposed may both be true ...
... factors . So it is , all through the field of sociology , and one of the profoundest mistakes to which the sociologist is liable is the failure to grasp the fact that two propositions which appear diametrically opposed may both be true ...
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Page 117 - ... all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced" and swept away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality — its universality ; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension — its enlargement. All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right ; all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which...
Page 65 - Where the sentiment of nationality exists in any force, there is a prima facie case for uniting all the members of the nationality under the same government, and a government to themselves apart.
Page 117 - Holding, as they do, that slavery is morally right, and socially elevating, they cannot cease to demand a full national recognition of it, as a legal right, and a social blessing.
Page 147 - ... two : first, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause ; and, second, that things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. The former principle may be called the Law of Similarity, the latter the Law of Contact or Contagion. From the first of these principles, namely the Law of Similarity, the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it...
Page 88 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Page 147 - Law of Contact or Contagion. From the first of these principles, namely the Law of Similarity, the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it: from the second he infers that whatever he does to a material object will affect equally the person with whom the object was once in contact, whether it formed part of his body or not.
Page 62 - But the strongest of all is identity of political antecedents: the possession of a national history, and consequent community of recollections; collective pride and humiliation, pleasure and regret, connected with the same incidents in the past.
Page 58 - It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant. Savages, even within the limits of the same tribe, are not nearly so uniform in character, as has been often asserted.
Page 117 - I suppose the institution of slavery really looks small to him. He is so put up by nature that a lash upon his back would hurt him, but a lash upon anybody else's back does not hurt him.
Page 143 - But carry your eye farther along the fabric and you will remark that, while the black and white chequer still runs through it, there rests on the middle portion of the web, where religion has entered most deeply into its texture, a dark crimson stain, which shades off insensibly into a lighter tint as the white thread of science is woven more and more into the tissue.