Social Control

A Survey of the Foundations of Order

Edward Alsworth Ross (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

492 Seiten

2009
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4128-1028-9 (ISBN)

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Social Control falls within social psychology, which is the branch of knowledge that deals with the psychic interplay between man and his environment. In Ross' terms, one of these branches, social ascendency, deals with the domination of society over the individual. Another, individual ascendency, embraces such topics as invention, leadership, the role of great men, and deals with the domination of the individual over society.

Social ascendency is divided into social infl uence-- mob mind, fashion, convention, custom, public opinion, and the like--and social control. Th e former is occupied with social domination that is without intention or purpose. The latter is concerned with social domination that is intended and that fulfi ls a function in the life of society. At the start of the twentieth century this work played an important role in the origination of social psychology as a distinct field.

Ross sought to determine how far the order we see about us is due to infl uences that reach men and women without social intervention. Investigation shows that the personality freely unfolds under conditions of healthy fellowship and may arrive at goodness on its own, and that order is explained partly by this streak in human nature and partly by the infl uence of social surroundings. Ross' book separates the individual's contribution to social order from that of society, and, brings to light everything that is considered in the social contribution of the individual. Th is classic volume is an important contribution to the history of ideas.

Edward Alsworth Ross (1866-1951) was known as one of the founders of American sociology and was most famous for his view that the purpose of sociology is the reform of society. He was also professor and chair of the department of sociology at the University of Wisconsin. Some of his work includes Sin and Society, Changing America and The Social Trend. Matthias Gross is professor in the department of urban and environmental sociology at Universitat Bielefeld and a member of the Institute for Science and Technology Studies. He is the author of The Nature of Society: A History of Environmental Sociology and Inventing Nature: Ecological Restoration by Public Experiments.

I: The Grounds of Control; I: The Problem; II: The RôLe of Sympathy; III: The Rôle of Sociability; IV: The Rôle of the Sense of Justice; V: The Rôle of Individual Reaction; VI: Natural Order; VII: The Need of Social Control; VIII: The Direction of Social Control; IX: The Radiant Points of Social Control; II: The Means of Control; X: Public Opinion; XI: Law; XII: Belief; XIII: Social Suggestion; XIV: Social suggestion continued — Education; XV: Social Suggestion Concluded—Custom; XVI: Social Religion; XVII: Personal Ideals—The Type; XVIII: Personal Ideals —The Ideal; XIX: Ceremony; XX: Art; XXI: Personality; XXII: Enlightenment; XXIII: Illusion; XXIV: Social Valuations; XXV: The Genesis of Ethical Elements—Selection and Survival; XXVI: The Genesis of Ethical Elements Continued—The Elite; XXVII: The Maintenance of Ethical Elements; III: The System of Control; XXVIII: Class Control; XXIX: The Vicissitudes of Social Control; XXX: The System of Social Control; XXXI: The Limits of Social Control; XXXII: The Criteria of Social Control; XXXIII: Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.6.2009
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	657 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
ISBN-10	1-4128-1028-0 / 1412810280
ISBN-13	978-1-4128-1028-9 / 9781412810289
Zustand	Neuware