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I. Sociology and "Scientific" History 1
II. Historical and Sociological Facts 6
III. Human Nature and Law 12
IV. History, Natural History, and Sociology 16
V. The Social Organism: Humanity or Leviathan? 24
VI. Social Control and Schools of Thought 27
VII. Social Control and the Collective Mind 36
VIII. Sociology and Social Research 43
_Representative Works in Systematic Sociology and Methods of
Sociological Research_ 57
_Topics for Written Themes_ 60
_Questions for Discussion_ 60
CHAPTER II. HUMAN NATURE
I. Introduction
1. Human Interest in Human Nature 64
2. Definition of Human Nature 65
3. Classification of the Materials 68
II. Materials
A. The Original Nature of Man
1. Original Nature Defined. _Edward L. Thorndike_ 73
2. Inventory of Original Tendencies. _Edward L. Thorndike_ 75
3. Man Not Born Human. _Robert E. Park_ 76
4. The Natural Man. _Milicent W. Shinn_ 82
5. Sex Differences. _Albert Moll_ 85
6. Racial Differences. _C. S. Myers_ 89
7. Individual Differences. _Edward L. Thorndike_ 92
B. Human Nature and Social Life
1. Human Nature and Its Remaking. _W. E. Hocking_ 95
2. Human Nature, Folkways, and the Mores. _William G. Sumner_ 97
3. Habit and Custom, the Individual and the General Will.
_Ferdinand Toennies_ 100
4. The Law, Conscience, and the General Will. _Viscount Haldane_ 102
C. Personality and the Social Self
1. The Organism as Personality. _Th. Ribot_ 108
2. Personality as a Complex. _Morton Prince_ 110
3. The Self as the Individual's Conception of His Role.
_Alfred Binet_
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