Applied Sociology: A Treatise on the Conscious Improvement of Society by SocietyGinn, 1906 - 384 pages This work and its predecessor, Pure Sociology, constitute together a system of sociology, and these, with Dynamic Sociology, The Psychic Factors of Civilization, and the Outlines of Sociology, make up a more comprehensive system of social philosophy. Should any reader acquaint himself with the whole, he will find it not only consistent with itself, but progressive in the sense that each successive volume carries the subject a step farther with a minimum of repetition or duplicate treatment. The central thought is that of a true science of society, capable, in the measure that it approaches completeness, of being turned to the profit of mankind. If there is one respect in which it differs more than in others from rival systems of philosophy it is in its practical character of never losing sight of the end or purpose, nor of the possibilities of conscious effort. It is a reaction against the philosophy of despair that has come to dominate even the most enlightened scientific thought. It aims to point out a remedy for the general paralysis that is creeping over the world, and which a too narrow conception of the law of cosmic evolution serves rather to increase than to diminish. It proclaims the efficacy of effort, provided it is guided by intelligence. It would remove the embargo laid upon human activity by a false interpretation of scientific determinism, and, without having recourse to the equally false conception of a power to will, it insists upon the power to act. - Preface. |
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... interest . Grow out of desires . World views due to economic conditions . · occidental ideas . - - Oriental and The study of mind versus the study of matter · 45 CHAPTER VI TRUTH AND ERROR Primitive reasoning . - Based on interest ...
... interest . Grow out of desires . World views due to economic conditions . · occidental ideas . - - Oriental and The study of mind versus the study of matter · 45 CHAPTER VI TRUTH AND ERROR Primitive reasoning . - Based on interest ...
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... interest . It has to do with social ideals , with ethical considerations , with what ought to be . While pure soci- ology treats of the " spontaneous development of society , " applied sociology " deals with artificial means of ...
... interest . It has to do with social ideals , with ethical considerations , with what ought to be . While pure soci- ology treats of the " spontaneous development of society , " applied sociology " deals with artificial means of ...
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A Treatise on the Conscious Improvement of Society by Society Lester Frank Ward. interests , can be so adapted by man himself . Applied sociology is chiefly concerned with enforcing this truth . Throughout the theo- logical and ...
A Treatise on the Conscious Improvement of Society by Society Lester Frank Ward. interests , can be so adapted by man himself . Applied sociology is chiefly concerned with enforcing this truth . Throughout the theo- logical and ...
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... interest of man are beyond calculation . But applied sociology is not government or politics , nor civic or social reform . It does not itself apply sociological principles ; it seeks only to show how they may be applied CH . I ] 9 ...
... interest of man are beyond calculation . But applied sociology is not government or politics , nor civic or social reform . It does not itself apply sociological principles ; it seeks only to show how they may be applied CH . I ] 9 ...
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... interests , prescriptive rights , and large vested interests , this is more clearly seen than in new countries , and hence it is in these latter that social reform movements are most successful . But the statistics show that the ...
... interests , prescriptive rights , and large vested interests , this is more clearly seen than in new countries , and hence it is in these latter that social reform movements are most successful . But the statistics show that the ...
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