INTRODUCTION: THE VOCATION OF CHARLES HORTON COOLEY by Jonathan B. Imber
PART ONE
OUR TIME
Automobiles � Strategy of the Youth Movement � Confusion and Continuity � Shaky Bridges � "Our Complex Life" � Radicalism and Reaction � The Conservatism of Intelligence � Education and Religion � Nationality � American Patriotism � Traits of Democracy � Immigrants � Americanization � Race � Anti-Semitism � Eugenists � Team-Work � Social Mechanics � Classes and Culture � The Upper Class � Class Magazines � The Handworking Classes � Class-Conflict �Rural Physiognomy � Progress?
PART TWO
READING AND WRITING
Books and Persons � Character � The Book and the Sentence � Form � Freedom in Books � Diary Books � Literary Selves � Egotism � Selves and Bodies � Struggle � Tranquillity � Jealousy � Criticism � Self-Criticism � Residual Satisfactions � Magazines � Goethe � Dante � Pascal � Bacon � Montesquieu and de Tocqueville � La Bruyere � Samuel Butler � Quiet in Books � Thoreau � Thomas a Kempis
PART THREE
THINKING
Originality � System and Spontaneity � How to Grow Ideas � Dried Truth � Motives � Milieu � Controversy. � The Subservience of Contradiction � Notes from Practice � Children's Philosophy
PART FOUR
ART, SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY
Building � The Glamour of Art � The Artist's Public � Heritage � Art and Conduct � An Art of Society? � Art and Science � The Fallibility of Scientific Groups � Skirmishes on the Border � Pseudo-Science � Perception � Diagrams and Statistics � Traits of Sociology � Two Ways of Organizing Life � The Organization of Freedom � "Heredity or Environment."
PART FIVE
ACADEMIC
A Soft Job � An Art? � The Day's Work � The Eloquent Man � Formalism � Heritage and Spontaneity � The Passing Current � The Chair � American Universities � The Campus � Scholars and Administrators � Genius on the Faculty � Academic Freedom � The Academic Outlook � Outing
PART SIX
HUMAN NATURE
Is Human Nature Selfish � Self-Expression � The Looking-Glass Self � Possessions � The Material "I" � On a Remark of Dr. Holmes � On Certain Sentiments � The "Gregarious Instinct " � Plans � Anticipation � The End of the World � The Transitive Attitude � Posthumous Fame � Might and Right � Prudence � Worry � Distraction � Mental Management � Compensation
PART SEVEN
LARGER LIFE
Faith � The Mind of the Soldier � The Lot of the Individual � As to the Shortness of Life � Evolution � Expansion � Solidarity � Perplexity � The Incredibility of Institutions � Past, Present and Future � Ideas about God � God and Oneself � Seeking God � Another Life? � Varieties of Idealism � Can Christianity Survive? � The Golden Rule � Group Sins � Social Religion � Christianity and Class � The Church � Salvation