Human nature and the social orderCooley, Charles Horton
Science
Human nature and the social order
Cooley, Charles Horton
Individualism; Social psychology; Sociology
Silence, fascination of, 314 f
Simplicity, 174
Sin, 376, 381
Sincerity in leadership, 317 ff
Slums, 379
Smiles, earliest, 45 ff;
interpretation of, 64 f
Sociability and personal ideas, 45–101
“Social,” meanings of the word, 3 f
Social faculty view, 11 f
Social groups, sensible basis of the idea of, 77;
relation of to the individual, 114
Social order, reflected in sympathy, 111 ff;
freedom in relation to, 397 ff
Social reality, the immediate is the personal idea, 84
Socialism, 4 ff, 90
Society, and the individual, 1–13, 134 f, 324 f;
in morals, 342 ff, 393;
is primarily a mental fact, 84;
is a relation among personal ideas, 84;
each mind an aspect of, 84 f;
the idea of, 85;
must be studied in the imagination, 86 ff;
is the collective aspect of personal thought, 100;
a phase, not a separable thing, 101
Sociology, too much based on material notions, 85, 89 f, 98 ff;
must observe personal ideas, 87 ff;
deals with personal intercourse in primary and secondary aspects, 101
Solitude, apparent, 57 f
Sophocles, 142
Spanish-American war, consolidating effect of, 293
Specialization, effect of, 115 ff
Spencer, Herbert, on egoism and altruism, 92;
nature of his system, 92;
on progress, 399
Spencerism, 306
Stability and instability in the self, 200 ff
Stable and unstable types of mind, 186 ff, 200 ff, 382 f
Stanley, Prof. H. M., 27, 138, 201, 214
Sterne, L., 194
Stevenson, R. L., physiognomy in his style, 77, 88, 95, 192, 195, 260,
320, 355
Strain of the present age, 112
Struggle for existence, as a view of life, 272
Style, the personal idea in, 73 ff;
what it is, 74;
personal ascendency in, 303 ff
Suger, the Abbot, 37
Suggestibility, 39 ff
Suggestion, and choice, 14–44;
definition of, 14;
in children, 19 ff;
contrary, 23, 267;
scope of in life, 29 ff
Superficiality of the time, 112, 198
Symbols, personal, 69 ff;
in art and literature, 71 ff
Symonds, J. A., 155, 169 f, 279, 317
Sympathy, or communion as an aspect of society, 102–135;
meaning of, 102 ff;
as compassion, 103;
a measure of personality, 106 ff;
universal, 113 f;
reflects social processes, 119 ff;
selective, 122 ff;
and love, 124 ff;
a particular expression of society, 133 ff;
hostile, 160, 234 ff;
in leadership, 294 ff;
lack of, in degeneracy, 382;
with criminal acts a test of responsibility, 387 ff
Sympathies, reflect the social order, 111 ff
Tact, 183 f;
in ascendency, 297 f
Tarde, G., 15, 272
“Tasso,” quoted, 122, 150
Tennyson, 129, 210, 287, 318
Thackeray, 76, 192
Thoreau, H. D., his relation to society, 57 f, 399 f; 157, 192, 195,
197, 235, 244, 270
Toleration, 264
Truth, motive for telling, 358 f
Tylor, E. B., 42, 314
Vanity, 199, 203 ff
Variation, degeneracy as, 374 f
Wagner, Richard, 76
War, hostile feeling in, 257;
dramatic power of leadership in, 291 f
Washington, 83
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account