Sociology and Social Research, Volumen8Southern California Sociological Society and University of Southern California., 1923 Includes the section "Book notes". |
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Página 146 - Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Página 96 - Language is probably the most self-contained, the most massively resistant of all social phenomena. It is easier to kill it off than to disintegrate its individual form.
Página 1 - Gentlemen of the Conference, the United States welcomes you with unselfish hands. We harbor no fears; we have no sordid ends to serve ; we suspect no enemy ; we contemplate or apprehend no conquest. Content with what we have, we seek nothing which is another's. We only wish to do with you that finer, nobler thing which no nation can do alone.
Página 183 - The general conclusion of the Committee is that as the slumps are in the main due to the wastes, extravagance, speculation, inflation, over-expansion, and inefficiency in production developed during the booms, the strategic point of attack, therefore, is the reduction of these evils...
Página 13 - Labor describes welfare work as including "anything for the comfort and improvement, intellectual or social, of the employees, over and above wages paid, which is not a necessity of the industry nor required by law.
Página 338 - The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
Página 96 - By the term capitalism, or the capitalist system, or as we prefer, the capitalist civilization, we mean the particular stage in the development of industry and legal institutions in which the bulk of the workers find themselves divorced from the ownership of the instruments of production, in such a way as to pass into the position of wage-earners, whose subsistence, security and personal freedom seem dependent on the will of a relatively small proportion of the nation; namely, those who own, and...
Página 10 - Each nation, the United States not excepted, has made its contribution to the welter of evil which now comprises the Far Eastern question. We shall do well to drop for all time the pose of self-righteousness and injured innocence and, penitently face the facts' Into the imperialistic game of modern industrialism and breeding, militaristic capitalism, Japan is the latest comer.
Página 146 - Far from being an extension of biology, the social sciences begin where the biological sciences end, and that is at the level where culture appears. Culture itself is, in the generally accepted definition by the veteran anthropologist, EB Tylor, "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." It is a phenomenon exclusively human and social. That is to say, culture is not the possession, so...
Página 148 - As societies progress in size and structure, they work in one another, now by their war-struggles and now by their industrial intercourse, profound metamorphoses. And the ever-accumulating, ever-complicating super-organic products, material and mental, constitute a further set of factors, which become more and more influential causes of change. So that, involved as the factors are at the beginning, each step in advance increases the involution, by adding factors which themselves grow more complex...