The American Journal of Sociology, Volume 27Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer University of Chicago Press, 1922 Established in 1895 as the first U.S. scholarly journal in its field, AJS remains a leading voice for analysis and research in the social sciences, presenting work on the theory, methods, practice, and history of sociology. AJS also seeks the application of perspectives from other social sciences and publishes papers by psychologists, anthropologists, statisticians, economists, educators, historians, and political scientists. |
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... physical , physiological , and social - by which the group imposes its I René Worms , Organisme et Société , " Bibliothèque Sociologique Internationale " ( Paris , 1896 ) , pp . 210-13 . control , or what seems to be control , upon 6 ...
... physical , physiological , and social - by which the group imposes its I René Worms , Organisme et Société , " Bibliothèque Sociologique Internationale " ( Paris , 1896 ) , pp . 210-13 . control , or what seems to be control , upon 6 ...
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... physical force to which we must give way of necessity , instead of that of a moral power such as religions adore . But as a matter of fact , the empire which it holds over consciences is due much less to the physical supremacy of which ...
... physical force to which we must give way of necessity , instead of that of a moral power such as religions adore . But as a matter of fact , the empire which it holds over consciences is due much less to the physical supremacy of which ...
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... physical proximity alone . Social contacts and social forces are of a subtler sort but not less real than physical . We know , for example , that vocations are largely determined by personal compe- tition ; that the solidarity of what ...
... physical proximity alone . Social contacts and social forces are of a subtler sort but not less real than physical . We know , for example , that vocations are largely determined by personal compe- tition ; that the solidarity of what ...
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... physical , mental , or temperamental qualities he is a debtor , rather than a creditor , to the public happiness , safety , or efficiency . Some of these individuals are called defectives , others depen- dents , others delinquents , and ...
... physical , mental , or temperamental qualities he is a debtor , rather than a creditor , to the public happiness , safety , or efficiency . Some of these individuals are called defectives , others depen- dents , others delinquents , and ...
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... physical defect , such as blindness , deafness , or deformity , is not co - ordinate with the class of dependents . Blindness may be a cause of dependency , but the blind man may be able to support himself , as also the totally deaf or ...
... physical defect , such as blindness , deafness , or deformity , is not co - ordinate with the class of dependents . Blindness may be a cause of dependency , but the blind man may be able to support himself , as also the totally deaf or ...
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Page 42 - The reasonable man adapts himself to the world : the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Page 298 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity; and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation* * The definition of Evolution needs qualifying by introduction of the word "relatively" before each of its antithetical clauses.
Page 18 - Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication. There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication. Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come to possess things in common.
Page 7 - ... and other officers of judicature and execution, artificial joints; reward and punishment (by which fastened to the seat of the sovereignty every joint and member is moved to perform his duty) are the nerves...
Page 41 - Rousseau is probably best known to the world by the famous words in which he begins the first chapter of the " Social Contract " : " Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Page 187 - INSTINCT is usually defined as the faculty of acting in such a way as to produce certain ends, without foresight of the ends, and without previous education in the performance.
Page 60 - The socially inadequate classes, regardless of etiology or prognosis, are the following: (I) Feeble-minded; (2) Insane (including the psychopathic); (3) Criminalistic (including the delinquent and wayward); (4) Epileptic; (5) Inebriate (including drug habitues); (6) Diseased (including the tuberculous. the syphilitic, the leprous, and others with chronic, infectious...
Page 290 - Shanghai, on yearly subscriptions 43 cents, on single copies 7 cents. Claims for missing numbers should be made within the month following the regular month of publication. The publishers expect to supply missing numbers free only when losses have been sustained in transit and when the reserve stock will permit.
Page 7 - Art goes yet further, imitating that rational and most excellent work of nature, man ; for by art is created that great leviathan, called a Commonwealth, or State, (in Latin Ciutas) which is but an artificial man...
Page 169 - In our own life the intimacy of the neighborhood has been broken up by the growth of an intricate mesh of wider contacts which leaves us strangers to people who live in the same house. And even in the country the same principle is at work, though less obviously, diminishing our economic and spiritual community with our neighbors. How far this change is a healthy development, and how far a disease, is perhaps still uncertain.