Human Nature and the Social Order / Edition 1

by Charles Horton Cooley

Overview

This work remains a pioneer sociological treatise on American culture. By understanding the individual not as the product of society but as its mirror image, Cooley concludes that the social order cannot be imposed from outside human nature but that it arises from the self. Cooley stimulated pedagogical inquiry into the dynamics of society with the publication of Human Nature and the Social Order in 1902. Human Nature and the Social Order is something more than an admirable ethical treatise. It is also a classic work on the process of social communication as the "very stuff" of which the self is made.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878559183
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/30/1983
Series:	Social Science Classics Series
Edition description:	2ND PRNTNG
Pages:	480
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

INTRODUCTION HEREDITY AND INSTINCT; I: SOCIETY AND THE INDIVIDUAL; II: SUGGESTION AND CHOICE; III: SOCIABILITY AND PERSONAL IDEAS; IV: SYMPATHY OR UNDERSTANDING AS AN ASPECT OF SOCIETY; V: THE SOCIAL SELF—1. THE MEANING OF I; VI: THE SOCIAL SELF—2. VARIOUS PHASES OF I; VII: HOSTILITY; VIII: EMULATION; IX: LEADERSHIP OR PERSONAL ASCENDANCY; X: THE SOCIAL ASPECT OF CONSCIENCE; XI: PERSONAL DEGENERACY; XII: FREEDOM