William McDougall

Mcdougall, William - 1871–1938, American psychologist, b. Lancashire, England, educated at Cambridge, Oxford, and Gottingen. An important figure in the development of social and physiological psychology, he was a professor of psychology at Harvard (1920–27), and at Duke from 1927 until his death. He studied eugenics and heredity, and for 17 years conducted experiments on the Read More...

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Psychology: The Study of Behaviour
by William McDougall. 258 pgs.

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HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE

PREFACE

CONTENTS

Chapter I: THE PROVINCE OF PSYCHOLOGY

Chapter III: THE STRUCTURE OF THE MIND

Chaprer IV: THE METHODS AND DEPARTMENTS OF PSYCHOLOGY

Chapter V: THE STUDY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Chapter VIII: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
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Character and the Conduct of Life: Practical Psychology for Everyman
by William McDougall. 391 pgs.

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Character and the Conduct of Life: Practical Psychology for Everyman

Preface

Contents

Chapter I Our Need of Self-Criticism

Chapter II Human Nature

Chapter III Modifications of Original Disposition

Chapter IV Other Factors of Human Nature

Chapter V Character and Will

Chapter VI Habits and Principles

Chapter VII Tastes and Interests

Chapter VIII Further Observations on Character

Chapter IX Character and Happiness

Chapter X Qualities of Conduct and of Personality

Chapter XI the Cultivation of Qualities

Chapter XII Some Qualities in Which Intellect and Character Are Combined—charm, Taste, Tact, Judgment, Wisdom

Chapter XIII to All Whom It May Concern. Some Common Faults

Chapter XIV Parents and Children

Chapter XV to Young People

Chapter XVI to Girls

Chapter XVII to Young Men

Chapter XVIII Married Life

Chapter XIX to Wives

Chapter XX to Husbands

Chapter XXI Age

Appendix the Management of the Body

Index
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Group Mind: A Sketch of the Principles of Collective Psychology, with Some Attempt to Apply Them to the Interpretation of National Life and Character
by William McDougall. 452 pgs.

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The Group Mind

Part I General Principles of Collective Psychology

Chapter II the Mental Life of the Crowd

Chapter III the Highly Organised Group

Chapter IV the Group Spirit

Chapter V Peculiarities of Groups of Various Types

Part II The National Mind and Character

Chapter VI Introductory What is a Nation?

Chapter VII the Mind of a Nation

Chapter VIII Freedom of Communication as a Condition of National Life

Chapter IX the Part of Leaders in National Life

Chapter X Other Conditions of National Life

Chapter XI the Will of the Nation

Chapter XII Ideas in National Life

Chapter XIII Nations of the Higher Type

Part III The Development of National Mind and Character

Chapter XIV Introductory

Chapter XV the Race-Making Period

Chapter XVI the Race-Making Period (continued)

Chapter XVII the Race-Making Period (continued)

Chapter XVIII Racial Changes During the Historic Period

Chapter XIX the Progress of Nations in Their Youth

Chapter XX the Progress of Nations in Their Maturity

Index
4 .

The Case for and against Psychical Belief (1927) (Chap. VII "Psychical Research as a University Study" by William McDougall)
by Carl Murchison. 370 pgs.

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Table of Contents

Table of Illustrations

Part I: Convinced of the Multiplicity of Psychical Phenomena

Chapter I: The University Aspect of Psychical Research

Chapter II: The Psychic Question as I See It

Chapter III: The Pragmatist in Psychic Research

Chapter IV: Experiments in Psychic Science

Chapter V: A Subjective Study of Death

Chapter VI: A Peak in Darien

Part II: Convinced of the Rarity of Genuine Psychical Phenomena

Chapter VII Psychical Research as a University Study

Chapter VIII: Psychical Research and Philosophy

Chapter IX: Is Psychical Research Worth While?

Review of the Margery Case

Chapter X: Some Logical Aspects of Psychical Research

Part III: Unconvinced as Yet

Chapter XI: Metapsychics and the Incredulity Of Psychologists

Chapter XII: Telepathy as an Experimental Problem

Part IV: Antagonistic to the Claims That Such Phenomena Occur

Chapter XIII: The Animus of Psychical Research

Chapter XIV: A Magician Among the Spirits

Iv. Conclusion
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Psychologies of 1925: Powell Lectures in Psychological Theory (Chap. 12 "Men or Robots? I" by William McDougall and Chap. 13 "Men or Robots? II" by William McDougall)
by Carl Murchison. 426 pgs.

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Preface

Table of Contents

Table of Illustrations

Part I: Schools of Behaviorism

Chapter I: What the Nursery: Has to Say About Instincts

Chapter II: Experimental Studies on the Growth of the Emotions

Chapter III: Recent Experiments on How We Lose and Change Our Emotional Equipment

Chapter IV: Psychology and Anthroponomy

Part II: Dynamic Psychology

Chapter V: Dynamíc Psychology

Part III: Gestalt.

Chapter VI: Mental Development

Chapter VII: Intelligence in Apes

Chapter VIII: An Aspect Gestalt Psychology

Part IV: Purposive Groups

Chapter IX: Three Fundamental Errors Of The Behaviorists And The Reconciliation Of The Purposive And Mechanistic Concepts

Chapter X: Awareness, Consciousness, Co-Consciousness and Animal Intelligence from the Point of View of the Data of Abnormal Psychology A Biological Theory of Consciousness

Chapter XI: The Problem of Personality How Many Selves Have We?

Chapter XII: Men or Robots? I

Chapter XIII: Men or Robots? II

Part V: Reaction Psychology

Chapter XIV: The Theoretical Aspect of Psychology

Chapter XV: The Experimental Methods of Psychology

Chapter XVI: The Applications of Psychology to Social Problems

Part VI: Psychologies Called "Structural"

Chapter XVII: The Psychologies Called Structural": Historical Derivation

Chapter XVIII: The Work of the Structuralists

Chapter XIX: The Psychological Organism
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Psychologies of 1930 (Chap. 1 "The Hormic Psychology" by William McDougall)
by Carl Murchison. 524 pgs.

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Psychologies of 1930

The International University Series in Psychology

The International University Series in Psychology

Preface

Table of Contents

Photographs of Contributors

Part I the Hormic Psychology

Chapter 1 the Hormic Psychology

Part II "Act" or "Intentional" Psychology and Associationism

Chapter 2 Associationism and "Act" Psychology a Historical Retrospect

Part III Functional Psychology

Chapter 3 Functionalism

Part IV Psychological Theories of Those Whose Training Background Was the Structuralism of E. B. Titchener

Chapter 4 a System of Motor Psychology

Chapter 5 a Psychology for Psychologists

Chapter 6 Psychology for Eclectics

Chapter 7 Structural Psychology

Part V Configurational Psychologies

Chapter 8 Some Tasks of Gestalt Psychology

Chapter 9 Some Problems of Space Perception

Chapter 10 Structure, Totality of Experience, and Gestalt

Part VI Russian Psychologies

Chapter 11 a Brief Outline of the Higher Nervous Activity

Chapter 12 Bekhterev's Reflexological School

Chapter 13 Psychology in the Light of Dialectic Materialism

Part VII Behaviorism

Chapter 14 Anthroponomy and Psychology

Chapter 15 the Biosocial Standpoint in Psychology

Part VIII Reaction Psychology

Chapter 16 Response Psychology

Part IX Dynamic Psychology

Chapter 17 Dynamic Psychology

Part X "Factor" School of Psychology

Chapter 18 "G" and After—a School to End Schools

Part XI Analytical Psychologies

Chapter 19 L'Analyse Psychologique

Chapter 20 Psychoanalysis Its Status and Promise

Chapter 21 Individual Psychology

Part XII Some of the Problems Fundamental to All Psychology

Chapter 22 Conduct and Experience

Chapter 23 the Inheritance of Mental Traits

Chapter 24 Normality

Chapter 25 Motivational Psychology

Name Index

Subject Index
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Topics in the History of Psychology, Vol. II ("Instinct Theory and William McDougall" begins on p. 164)
by Gregory A. Kimble, Kurt Schlesinger. 429 pgs.

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Contents of Volume 1

Preface

1 Overview: the Chronology

2 Behavioral Genetics and The Nature-Nurture Question

3 The Development Of Psychological Testing

4 Developmental Psychology

5 Drives and Motives

6 Sleep and Dreaming

7 Psychotherapy

8 Psychopathology: I. From Ancient Times to The Eighteenth Century

9 Psychopathology: Ii. from The Eighteenth Century to Modern Times

10 Approaches to Personality Theory

11 History of Social Psychology

Name Index
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Perception: An Approach to Personality (1951) ("McDougall's Theory of the Sentiments" begins on p. 240)
by Robert R. Blake, Glenn V. Ramsey. 442 pgs.

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Contents

Illustrations

Chapter 1 Perceptual Processes as Basic to an Understanding of Complex Behavior

Chapter 2 Some Structural Factors in Perception

Chapter 3 Body Chemistry and Perception

Chapter 4 the Role of Learning in Perception

Chapter 5 Personality Dynamics and the Process of Perceiving

Chapter 6 Cultural and Developmental Factors in Perception

Chapter 7 the Role of Language in the Perceptual Processes

Chapter 8 Toward an Integrated Theory of Personality

Chapter 9 Unconscious Processes and Perception

Chapter 10 Perceptual Organization and Behavior Pathology

Chapter 11 Perceptual Reorganization in Client-Centered Therapy

Chapter 12 the Personal World Through Perception

Chapter 13 Personality Theory and Perception

Index of Names

Index of Subjects
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Methods in Social Science: A Case Book (1931) ("William McDougall's Methodological Concept of Instinct" begins on p. 186)
by Stuart A. Rice. 824 pgs.

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Foreword

Table of Contents

Introduction

Case Analyses

Section I: the Delimitation of Fields of Inquiry

ANALYSIS 1: THE METHOD OF AUGUSTE COMTE: SUBORDINATION OF IMAGINATION TO OBSERVATION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

ANALYSIS 2: RELATION OF UTILITY THEORY TO ECONOMIC METHOD IN THE WORK OF WILLIAM STANLEY JEVONS AND OTHERS

ANALYSIS 3: THE POSSIBILITY OF A SCIENCE OF POLITICS: WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO METHODS SUGGESTED BY WILLIAM B. MUNRO AND GEORGE E. G. CATLIN

ANALYSIS 4: MARY RICHMOND'S FORMULATION OF A NEW SCIENCE

ANALYSIS 5: STRUCTURAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GESTALT: THE METHODS OF E. B. TITCHENER COMPARED WITH THOSE OF K. KOFFKA, W. KýHLER AND M. WERTHEIMER

ANALYSIS 6: PROBLEMS OF METHOD IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: ALFRED VERDROSS' CONCEPT OF THE UNITY OF THE LEGAL ORDER ON THE BASIS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONSTITUTION

Section II: the Definition of Objects of Investigation

ANALYSIS 7: THE SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS OF VILFREDO PARETO

ANALYSIS 8: THE SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS OF WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER, AND OF WILLIAM I. THOMAS AND FLORIAN ZNANIECKI

ANALYSIS 9: TYPOLOGICAL METHOD: E. KRETSCHMER'S STUDY OF PHYSIQUE AND CHARACTER

ANALYSIS 10: WILLIAM McDOUGALL'S METHODOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF INSTINCT

Section III: the Establishment of Units and Scales

ANALYSIS 11: METHODS INVOLVED IN THE FEDERAL CENSUS OF POPULATION

ANALYSIS 12: A DEVICE FOR MEASURING THE SIZE OF FAMILIES, INVENTED BY EDGAR SYDENSTRICKER AND W. I. KING

ANALYSIS 13: TESTING AND SCALING METHODS: E. L. THORNDIKE'S MEASUREMENTS OF HANDWRITING

Section IV: Attempts to Discover Spatial Distributions and Temporal Sequences

ANALYSIS 14: A DETAIL OF REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY: OBJECTIVES AND METHODS IN ROBERT S. PLATT'S STUDY OF THE ELLISON BAY COMMUNITY

ANALYSIS 15: THE INFLUENCE OF GEOLOGY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY UPON THE INDUSTRY, COMMERCE, AND LIFE OF A PEOPLE, AS DESCRIBED BY CARL ORTWIN SAUER AND OTHERS

ANALYSIS 16: THE CALIFORNIA RAISIN INDUSTRY: C. C. COLBY'S STUDY IN GEO. GRAPHIC INTERPRETATION

ANALYSIS 17: THE CULTURE-AREA AND AGE-AREA CONCEPTS OF CLARK WISSLER

ANALYSIS 18: HUGO OBERMAIER'S RECONSTRUCTION OF SEQUENCES AMONG PREHIS- TORIC CULTURES IN THE OLD WORLD

ANALYSIS 19: N. C. NELSON'S STRATICRAPHIC TECHNIQUE IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF PREHISTORIC SEQUENCES IN SOUTHWESTERN AMERICA

Section V: Interpretations of Change as A Developmental Stage

ANALYSIS 21: THE CONCEPT OF PHONETIC LAW AS TESTED IN PRIMITIVE LANGUAGES

ANALYSIS 22: THE PREDICTION OF CULTURAL CHANGE: A PROBLEM ILLUSTRATED IN STUDIES BY F. STUART CHAPIN AND A. L. KROEBER

Section VI: Interpretations of Temporal Sequences with Consideration of Special Types of "Causation"

ANALYSIS 23: THE SECTION AND THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY: THE METHODOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER

ANALYSIS 24: THE WORK OF HENRI PIRENNE AND GEORG VON BELOW WITH RESPECT TO THE ORIGIN OF THE MEDIEVAL TOWN

ANALYSIS 25: HISTORY AND NATIONALISM AS PORTRAYED BY SIDNEY B. FAY

ANALYSIS 26: THE HISTORICAL METHOD OF JULES MICHELET

ANALYSIS 27: THE HISTORICAL METHOD OF ERNEST RENAN

ANALYSIS 28: SPIRITUAL VALUES IN THE WORK OF ERNST TROELTSCH

ANALYSIS 29: VOLTAIRE, HISTORIAN OF CIVILIZATION AND EXPONENT OF RATIONALISM

ANALYSIS 30: WHAT ARE HISTORIANS TRYING TO DO

Section VII: Interpretations of Relationship Among Unmeasured Factors

ANALYSIS 31: HISTORICAL INTERRELATION OF CULTURE TRAITS: FRANZ BOAS' STUDY OF TSIMSHIAN MYTHOLOGY

ANALYSIS 32: THE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL ATTITUDES: A SEMI-INTUITIVE INQUIRY BY JAMES MICKEL WILLIAMS

ANALYSIS 33: THE COMPARATIVE METHOD OF JAMES BRYCE

ANALYSIS 34: A HYPOTHESIS ROOTED IN THE PRECONCEPTIONS OF A SINGLE CIVILIZATION TESTED BY BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI

ANALYSIS 35: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH IN ECONOMICS, REPRESENTED IN THE WORK OF J. A. HOBSON

ANALYSIS 36: SOCIAL FORCES IN PERSONAL-BEHAVIOR SEQUENCES STUDIED BY THE JUDGE BAKER FOUNDATION

ANALYSIS 37: FREDERIC M. THRASHER'S STUDY OF GANGS

ANALYSIS 38: THE MISSOURI CRIME SURVEY

Section VIII: Attempts to Determine Relations Among Measured but Experimentally Uncontrolled Factors

ANALYSIS 39: INTERRELATIONS OF STATISTICAL AND CASE METHODS: STUDIES OF YOUNG DELINQUENTS BY JOHN SLAWSON AND CYRIL BURT

ANALYSIS 40: HYPOTHESES AND VERIFICATIONS IN CLIFFORD R. SHAW'S STUDIES OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

ANALYSIS 41: MATHEMATICAL TREATMENT BY DOROTHY SWAINE THOMAS OF SOCIAL DATA ARRANGED IN TIME SERIES

ANALYSIS 42: THE CONCEPT OF RACE IN THE LIGHT OF FRANZ BOAS' STUDIES OF HEAD-FORMS AMONG IMMIGRANTS

ANALYSIS 43: BEHAVIOR ALTERNATIVES AS STATISTICAL DATA IN STUDIES BY WILLIAM F. OGBURN AND ERNEST W. BURGESS

ANALYSIS 44: THE INDUCTIVE TESTING OF AN ECONOMIC DEDUCTON: A METHOD ILLUSTRATED BY ANALYSES OF MARGINAL PRODUCERS AND REPRESENTATIVE FIRMS, BY ALFRED MARSHALL, HORACE SECRIST, AND KEMPER SIMPSON

ANALYSIS 45: STATISTICAL MEASUREMENTS OF THE OPERATION OF THE LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURNS BY MORDECAI EZEKIEL AND OTHERS

ANALYSIS 46: HENRY L. MOORE'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE STATISTICAL LAW OF DEMAND

ANALYSIS 47: WESLEY C. MITCHELL'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY OF BUSINESS CYCLES

Section IX: Attempts to Determine Quantitative Relations Among Measured and Experimentally Controlled Factors

ANALYSIS 48: EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATIONS BY S. WYATT AND J. A. FRASER OF THE EFFECTS OF REST PAUSES UPON REPETITIVE WORK

ANALYSIS 49: EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION BY FLOYD H. ALLPORT OF GROUP INFLUENCES UPON MENTAL ACTIVITY

ANALYSIS 50: HAROLD F. GOSNELL'S EXPERIMENTS IN THE STIMULATION OF VOTING

ANALYSIS 51: THE QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT OF HIGHER MENTAL PROCESSES IN THE PIONEER STUDIES OF H. EBBINGHAUS

ANALYSIS 52: THE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ATTITUDE, MEANING, AND THE PROCESSES ANTECEDENT TO ACTION BY N. ACH AND OTHERS IN THE WýRZBURG LABORATORY

Appendixes

Indexes
10 .

Social Psychology Interpreted (1927) ("McDougall's Theories" begins on p. 97)
by Jesse William Sprowls. 274 pgs.

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Preface

Chapter I: The Origins of Social Psychology

Summary

Chapter II: The Nature of Social Psychology

Summary

Chapter III: The Theory of Instincts

The Changing Conception of Instinct

Chapter IV: Social Forces

Conclusions

Chapter V: Group Mind Theories

Summary

Chapter VI: Social Organization

Supplementary Readings

Chapter VII: Culture

Summary

Chapter VIII: The Conflict of Cultures

Summary

Supplementary Readings

Chapter IX: The Conflict of Groups

Conclusions

Supplementary Readings

Chapter X: Social Movement

Conclusions

Chapter XI: The Psychology of Interaction

Summary

Chapter XII: Methods

Summary

Chapter XIII: The Laws of Social Psychology

Supplementary Readings.

Chapter XIV: Conclusions and Interpretations

Bibliography

Index

Sans Tache
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American Social Psychology: Its Origins, Development, and European Background (1932) ("William McDougall" begins on p. 176)
by Fay Berger Karpf. 484 pgs.

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Preface

Foreword

Introduction

Part I: European Background

Chapter I: Nineteenth Century Philosophical Background

Chapter II: The Development of Social-Psychological Thought In Germany

Chapter III: The Development of Social-Psychological Thought In France

Chapter IV: The Development of Social-Psychological Thought In England

Part II: The Development of Social-Psychological Thought in the United States

Chapter V: Background and Beginnings

Chapter VI: Social-Psychological Thought as an Extension Of Psychological and Sociological Theory

Chapter VII The Emergence of a Differentiated Social Psychology

Chapter VIII: Attempts at Systematic Treatment

Chapter IX Summary and Conclusions

Bibliography

Index
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Sociological Theory: Present-Day Sociology from the Past (1956) ("Imitation, Stability, and Change" by William McDougall begins on p. 420)
by Edgar F. Borgatta, Henry J. Meyer. 580 pgs.

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Contents

Chapter I The Sociology of Ideas

The Sociology of Ideas

Chapter 2 The Person as a Self

The Person as a Self

The Social Self

Chapter 3 The Self and the Other

Sociability and Personal Ideas

The Self, the Generalized Other and the Individual

Society as an Organization of Selves

Chapter 4 The Social Character of Personality

The Ethical Self and Conscience

The Development of Morality in the Child

Retributive and Distributive Justice

The Social Shaping of Human Needs

Chapter 5 Social and Cultural Limits of Personality

Culture and Personality

Participation in Culture

Part III Social Forms and Processes

Chapter 6 The Form of the Group: Size and Character

The Number of Persons as Determining the Form of the Group

The Crowd

Chapter 7 The Ordering of Relationships

From Status to Contract

Competition and Social Placement

Status and Role

Leadership or Personal Ascendency

Superiority and Subordination in Social Relationships

Knowledge and Ignorance

Chapter 8 Knowledge About Others and Social Relationships

Primary Groups and Primary Ideals

Part IV Societal Structures

Chapter 9 Structural Patterns

Social Structures and Their Differentiation

Custom

Fashion

Institutions and the Person

The Theory of Public Opinion

Social Systems

The Concept of Function

The Family as a Primary Social Group

Chapter 10 Associations

Political and Economic Associations in Complex Societies

The Occupational Group

Religious Experience and Religious Organization

The Organization of Effort

Chapter 11 Community

Structure and Process in the City

Class and Caste

Chapter 12 Social Class

The Bases of the Leisure Class

Class, Status and Party

Part V The Persistence of Social Structures

The Persistence of Social Groups

Chapter 13 The Persistence of Groups

The External Reality of Society

Chapter 14 Processes of Social Control

The Regulation of the Wishes

Control and Attention

Some Aspects of Social Control

Imitation, Stability and Change

Chapter 15 The Pressure to Conform

The Social Aspect of Conscience

Conformity and Non-Conformity

The Personal Ideal and Social Control

Social Sanctions

Part VI Social Change

Chapter 16 The Character of Social Change

Patterns of Social Change

Ideological Basis of Social Change

Property, Technology and Social Change

Institutional Adaptation

Legal Fictions

Chapter 17 Processes in Social Change

Ordering and Forbidding

Social Reorganization Through Disorganization

Diffusion

Science and Social Practice

Conflict of Values

Chapter 18 Conflicting Values and Social Integration

Anomalies of Self-Consciousness

Social Integration and Suicide

The Ideal of Social Integration

Epilogue

Index
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War: Studies from Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology (1968) (Includes "The Instinct of Pugnacity" by William McDougall)
by Leon Bramson, George W. Goethals. 383 pgs.

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War: Studies from Psychology Sociology Anthropology

Preface to the Revised Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Acknowledgments

Contents

Part I: Studies from Psychology

Introduction

Instinct Theories and Comparative Psychology

William James the Moral Equivalent of War

William Mcdougall the Instinct of Pugnacity

D. O. Hebb & W. R. Thompson Emotion and Society

Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Sigmund Freud Why War?

E. F. M. Durbin & John Bowlby Personal Aggressiveness and War

Harry Stack Sullivan toward a Psychiatry of Peoples

Erik H. Erikson Wholeness and Totality

Daniel J. Levinson Authoritarian Personality and Foreign Policy

Social Learning and Intergroup Relations

Mark A. May War, Peace, and Social Learning

Edward C. Tolman Drives toward War

Gordon W. Allport the Role of Expectancy

Part II: Studies from Sociology and Anthropology

Introduction

William Graham Sumner War

Robert E. Park the Social Function of War

Bronislaw Malinowski an Anthropological Analysis of War

Margaret Mead Warfare is Only an Invention— Not a Biological Necessity

Andrew P. Vayda Primitive Warfare

Joseph Schneider Primitive Warfare: a Methodological Note

Part III: War, Liberal Democracy, and Industrial Society

Introduction

Herbert Spencer the Military and the Industrial Society

Harold D. Lasswell the Garrison State

Alexis de Tocqueville on War, Society, and the Military

Morris Janowitz Military Elites and the Study of War

Raymond Aron War and Industrial Society

Amitai Etzioni toward a Sociological Theory of Peace

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Contemporary Schools of Psychology (1948) (Discussion of William McDougall begins on p. 213)
by Robert S. Woodworth. 279 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Contents

Illustrations

Chapter 1: Our Schools and Their Background

Chapter 2: Functional and Structural Psychology

Chapter 3: Associationism Old and New

Chapter 4: Behaviorism

Chapter 5: Gestalt Psychology

Chapter 6: Psychoanalysis and Related Schools

Chapter 7: Hormic and Holistic Psychologies

Chapter 8: The Middle of the Road

Bibliography

Author Index

Subject Index
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Mind and Personality: An Essay in Psychology and Philosophy (1927) (Discussion of William McDougall begins on p. 61)
by William Brown. 358 pgs.

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Contents

Chapter I: Introduction

Personality and Physiology (i)--Mind and the Nervous System (chapter Ii) (ii)--Mind and the Physical Organism (chapter Iiiu+0 029

Chapter II: Mind and the Nervous System

Chapter III: Mind and the Physical Organism

Personality and Psychology

Chapter IV: Experience and the Organized Self

Chapter V: Instinct, Emotion, and Sentiment

Chapter VI: Volition

Chapter VII: Responsibility and Mental Disease

Personality and Experimental Psychology

Chapter VIII: Experimental Psychology

Chapter IX: Mind and Mathematical Ability

Personality and Child Psychology

Chapter X: Mental Development in Childhood

Chapter XI: Problems of Adolescence

Personality and Psycho-Pathology

Chapter XII: Pshycology and Medicine

Chapter XIII: The Early Treatment of Mental Disease

Chapter XIV: Suggestion and Hypnosis

Chapter XV: Pshyco-Analysis

Chapter XVI: Dissociation and Mental Unity

Personality and Ethics

Chapter XVII: Plato and Aristotle

Chapter XVIII: Moral Values

Chapter XIX: Personality and Evolution

Personality and Religion

Chapter XX: Psychological Methods in the Study of Religion

Chapter XXI: Suggestion and Faith

Chapter XXII: Mysticism

Chapter XXIII: Personality and Value

Chapter XXIV: Personality and Survival of Bodily Death

Bibliography

Index

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