Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order

ISBN-13: 9781412810289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 492 str.

Edward Ross; Matthias Gross

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Edward Alsworth Ross