1st Edition

Human Nature and the Social Order

By Charles Horton Cooley Copyright 1983
480 Pages
by Routledge

480 Pages
by Routledge

480 Pages
by Routledge

This work remains a pioneer sociological treatise on American culture. By understanding the individual not as the product of society but as its mirror image, Cooley concludes that the social order cannot be imposed from outside human nature but that it arises from the self. Cooley stimulated pedagogical inquiry into the dynamics of society with the publication of Human Nature and the Social Order... Read more
INTRODUCTION HEREDITY AND INSTINCT; I: SOCIETY AND THE INDIVIDUAL; II: SUGGESTION AND CHOICE; III: SOCIABILITY AND PERSONAL IDEAS; IV: SYMPATHY OR UNDERSTANDING AS AN ASPECT OF SOCIETY; V: THE SOCIAL SELF—1. THE MEANING OF I; VI: THE SOCIAL SELF—2. VARIOUS PHASES OF I; VII: HOSTILITY; VIII: EMULATION; IX: LEADERSHIP OR PERSONAL ASCENDANCY; X: THE SOCIAL ASPECT OF CONSCIENCE; XI: PERSONAL DEGENERACY; XII: FREEDOM

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Charles Horton Cooley