An Introduction to Social Psychology

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McDougall, William

Psychology & Counseling

Franklin Classics

The Group Mind: A Sketch of the Principles of Collective Psychology, With Some Attempt to Apply Them to the Interpretation of National Life and Character

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Body and Mind; a History and a Defense of Animism

History

An introduction to social psychology

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV The Group Spirit IN considering the mental life of a patriot army, as the type of a highly organised group, we saw that group self-consciousness is a factor of very great importance --that it is a principal condition of the elevation of its collective mental life and behaviour above the level of the merely impulsive violence and unreasoning fickleness of the mob. This self-consciousness of the group is the essential condition of all higher group life; we must therefore study it more nearly as it is manifested in groups of various types. It is unfortunate that our language has no word that accurately translates the French expression, esprit de corps; for this conveys exactly the conception that we are examining. I propose to use the term group spirit as the equivalent of the French expression, the frequent use of which in English speech and writing sufficiently justifies the attempt to specialise this compound word for psychological purposes. We have seen that, in virtue of the sentiment developed about the idea of the army, all its members exhibit group loyalty; it is only as the sentiment develops about the idea that this idea of the whole, present to the mind of each member, becomes a power which can hold the whole group together, in spite of all physical and moral difficulties. We see this if we reflect how armies of mercenaries, in which this collective sentiment is lacking or rudimentary only, are apt to dissolve and fade away by desertion as soon as serious difficulties are encountered. The importance of the collective idea and sentiment appears still more clearly, when we reflect on the type of army which has generally proved the most efficient of all --namely, an army of volunteers banded together to achieve some particular end. Such an army (...

The Group Mind (Classics in Psychology)

Ayer Co. Pub

Title: Is America Safe for Democracy? Six Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute of Boston, Under the Title "anthropology and History, or the Influence of Anthropologic Constitution on the Destinies of Nations," Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons Publication date: 1921 Subjects: Race  Civilization  Eugenics  United States -- Civilization Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Is America Safe for Democracy? (Anti Movements in America)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

<p>A pioneering work in psychology, this enormously influential book served as a catalyst in the study of the foundations of social behavior. Ironically, its approach marked such a dramatic departure from contemporary trends that it stimulated little follow-up research at the time of its 1908 publication. In recent years, however, the author's ideas have been resurrected in sociobiological reasoning, making the republication of this systematic treatise particularly timely. McDougall's work grounds social behavior in biology, focusing on the individual and attributing most social behavior to instinct. This reasoning makes his work one of the first in modern psychology to take human motivation as its central concern. As one of the initial texts of social psychology, it assisted in laying the foundations of a new discipline, separating the field from its forerunners, sociology and general psychology. McDougall's emphasis on the instinctive basis of social phenomena also helped promote the individualistic approach typical of modern social psychology. Popular, long-lived, and ever-relevant, this landmark work is guaranteed a wide audience among teachers and students of psychology.</p>

Dover Publications

Is America Safe for Democracy? Six Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute of Boston, Under the Title

Americas

Wentworth Press

An Introduction To Social Psychology (1916)

Kessinger Publishing

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