Life and the Student (eBook, ePUB)

Roadside Notes on Human Nature, Society, and Letters
Redaktion: Friedrich, Carl

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Life and the Student (1927), with a new introduction by Jonathan B. Imber, is a compilation of reflections, commentaries, and letters from other scholars that Charles Horton Cooley, accumulated throughout his life. The book includes personal passages on various topics within the realms of reading and writing, thinking, art, science, sociology, academia, religion, and human nature.

There is no formal structure to the book, except the literary sense that organizes these thoughts and observations about life. It is impossible to categorize these widely ranging commentaries. They include discussions of the automobile, the impressionable nature of young people, the claim that the question of racial superiority is still unresolved, his belief that eugenists are inconsistent in their views, and more.

Cooley's work sought to emphasize the connection between society and the individual. He believed that the two could only be understood in relationship to each other. While researching the effects of social responses and social participation, he created the concept of the "looking-glass self," which is the theory that a person's sense of self grows out of interpersonal interactions and the perceptions of others. Cooley also showed that social life and the relationship between groups and communities stems from mental phenomena.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351508711
• Artikelnr.: 49043817

Autorenporträt

Carl Friedrich

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION: THE VOCATION OF CHARLES HORTON COOLEY by Jonathan B. Imber PART ONE OUR TIME Automobiles
Strategy of the Youth Movement
Confusion and Continuity
Shaky Bridges
"Our Complex Life"
Radicalism and Reaction
The Conservatism of Intelligence
Education and Religion
Nationality
American Patriotism
Traits of Democracy
Immigrants
Americanization
Race
Anti-Semitism
Eugenists
Team-Work
Social Mechanics
Classes and Culture
The Upper Class
Class Magazines
The Handworking Classes
Class-Conflict
Rural Physiognomy
Progress? PART TWO READING AND WRITING Books and Persons
Character
The Book and the Sentence
Form
Freedom in Books
Diary Books
Literary Selves
Egotism
Selves and Bodies
Struggle
Tranquillity
Jealousy
Criticism
Self-Criticism
Residual Satisfactions
Magazines
Goethe
Dante
Pascal
Bacon
Montesquieu and de Tocqueville
La Bruyere
Samuel Butler
Quiet in Books
Thoreau
Thomas a Kempis PART THREE THINKING Originality
System and Spontaneity
How to Grow Ideas
Dried Truth
Motives
Milieu
Controversy.
The Subservience of Contradiction
Notes from Practice
Children's Philosophy PART FOUR ART, SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY Building
The Glamour of Art
The Artist's Public
Heritage
Art and Conduct
An Art of Society?
Art and Science
The Fallibility of Scientific Groups
Skirmishes on the Border
Pseudo-Science
Perception
Diagrams and Statistics
Traits of Sociology
Two Ways of Organizing Life
The Organization of Freedom
"Heredity or Environment." PART FIVE ACADEMIC A Soft Job
An Art?
The Day's Work
The Eloquent Man
Formalism
Heritage and Spontaneity
The Passing Current
The Chair
American Universities
The Campus
Scholars and Administrators
Genius on the Faculty
Academic Freedom
The Academic Outlook
Outing PART SIX HUMAN NATURE Is Human Nature Selfish
Self-Expression
The Looking-Glass Self
Possessions
The Material "I"
On a Remark of Dr. Holmes
On Certain Sentiments
The "Gregarious Instinct "
Plans
Anticipation
The End of the World
The Transitive Attitude
Posthumous Fame
Might and Right
Prudence
Worry
Distraction
Mental Management
Compensation PART SEVEN LARGER LIFE Faith
The Mind of the Soldier
The Lot of the Individual
As to the Shortness of Life
Evolution
Expansion
Solidarity
Perplexity
The Incredibility of Institutions
Past, Present and Future
Ideas about God
God and Oneself
Seeking God
Another Life?
Varieties of Idealism
Can Christianity Survive?
The Golden Rule
Group Sins
Social Religion
Christianity and Class
The Church
Salvation INDEX