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The Idea of Progress
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Studies in Sociology
First published in 1932, Studies in Sociology consists of essays that fall into three groups, the first concerned with the scope and method of sociology and its relation to history and social philosophy; the second devoted to an analysis of the theory of evolution as applied to society, and to a number of problems in social psychology, such as the nature of social purpose, the place of instinct in social science, the relation between instinct and emotion, and the inheritance of mental characters; while the third group deals with the claims of Eugenics, and social classes and social mobility. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, history and philosophy.
Reason and Unreason in Society
Copy in Mahi Māreikura on loan from the whanau of Maharaia Winiata.
L. T. Hobhouse
First published in 1931, L. T. Hobhouse is an amalgamation of the late social philosopher L. T. Hobhouse’s personal life and academic work. The first part of this volume is a brief biography by Mr. J. A. Hobson, with added impressions by personal friends and colleagues. It is followed by an account of his philosophy and sociology written by Professor Morris Ginsberg, his pupil and successor at the London School of Economics. Third section consists of some collected essays illustrative of his various capacities and interests. This book will be of interest to students of philosophy and sociology.
The Psychology of Society (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Psychology of Society Despite the obvious importance of a knowledge of the psychological factors operating in political and social affairs, the conscious application of psycho logical principles to social theory or rather the attempt to build up a social psychology is a recent growth. The movement may be said to begin in the latter half of the nineteenth century and is exceed ingly complex. No attempt can be made here to disentangle the various elements that contributed to the creation of an atmosphere favourable to the psychological point of View but the following phases may be distinguished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and cl...
The Psychology of Society
Speculations on social and political problems must from the nature of the case have a psycho logical basis, conscious or unconscious. Whether we are concerned with a description or analysis of the actual behaviour of human beings in the various spheres of activity, or with the problem of ideals or principles which man ought to follow, a knowledge of human potentialities, of the nature of his innate and acquired equipment, of the motive forces of life and conduct is evidently of the greatest importance. And we do in fact find that writers on Politics, Economics, Ethics and the like proceed on certain assumptions as to what recalled the “laws of human nature” Thus to take but a few instanc...
