Social Organization: A Study of the Larger Mind

by Charles Horton Cooley (Editor)

Overview

This classic text has set a standard for American sociol-ogy. Cooley provides analysis without empiricism, applying psychological insight to his study of the individual and collective self. First published in 1909, this work attempts to motivate man and society to be more responsible to each other."The style of his book is clear and attractive, the text abounding in happy quotation."—Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878558247
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	01/30/1983
Series:	Social Science Classics
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	458
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929) was an American sociologist who taught economics and sociology at the University of Michigan. Cooley was a founding member and the eighth president of the American Sociological Association.

Table of Contents

1: Primary Aspects of Organization; 1: Social and Individual Aspects of Mind; 2: Social and Individual Aspects of Mind; 3: Primary Groups; 4: Primary Ideals; 5: The Extension of Primary Ideals; 2: Communication; 6: The Significance of Communication; 7: The Growth of Communication; 8: Modern Communication: Enlargement and Animation; 9: Modern Communication: Individuality; 10: Modern Communication: Superficiality and Strain; 3: The Democratic Mind; 11: The Enlargement of Consciousness; 12: The Theory of Public Opinion; 13: What the Masses Contribute; 14: Democracy and Crowd Excitement; 15: Democracy and Distinction; 16: The Trend of Sentiment; 17: The Trend of Sentiment; 4: Social Classes; 18: The Hereditary or Caste Principle; 19: Conditions Favoring or Opposing the Growth of Caste; 20: The Outlook Regarding Caste; 21: Open Classes; 22: How Far Wealth is the Basis of Open Classes; 23: On the Ascendency of a Capitalist Class; 24: On the Ascendency of a Capitalist Class; 25: The Organization of the Ill-Paid Classes; 26: Poverty; 27: Hostile Feeling Between Classes; 5: Institutions; 28: Institutions and the Individual; 29: Institutions and the Individual; 30: Formalism and Disorganization; 31: Disorganization: The Family; 32: Disorganization: The Church; 33: Disorganization: Other Traditions; 6: Public Will; 34: The Function of Public Will; 35: Government as Public Will; 36: Some Phases of the Larger Will