1st Edition

Passion and Social Constraint

By Ralph Ross Copyright 1963
384 Pages
by Routledge

386 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

In intellectual and academic circles, Ernest van den Haag is respected for his brilliant mind, his outspoken and often highly controversial assertions, and a very unacademic, sharp, biting style.Passion and Social Constraint, before its adaptation into a book for the general reader, was part of an enormous textbook, which Dr. van den Haag wrote with Professor Ralph Ross called The Fabric of... Read more
One: Personality; I: The Humanization of Infants; II: The Oedipus Complex; III: Who Is Normal?; IV: Sex, Repression, and Beyond; V: Treatment; VI: The Family as an Industry; Two: Society; VII: Groups; VIII: The Basic Tension of Group Membership; IX: Rivalry, Competition, and Conflict; X: Leadership, Authority, and Power; XI: Culture, Passion, and Affectations; XII: The Conflict between Economic Progress and Social Well-Being; XIII: Class, Estate, and Caste; XIV: Expansion, Mobility, and the Class System; XV: Democracy and Elites; XVI: Roles and the Prestige of Histrionics; XVII: Snobbery (and the Supreme Court’s Prescription); Three: Popular Culture; XVIII: Why Is the Crowd Lonely?; XIX: Of Happiness and of Despair We have No Measure; Four: The Proper Study of Mankind; XX: Man as an Object of Science

Biography

Ralph Ross