The psychology of nationality and internationalism / by W.B. Pillsbury.
"This book was suggested by contact that I had with the American Greeks returned to Greece to fight in the Balkan War. That raised for me a number of problems which I have tried to answer and in part have answered to my own satisfaction. On the more theoretical sides much has been suggested by...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Appleton,
1919.
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| Summary: | "This book was suggested by contact that I had with the American Greeks returned to Greece to fight in the Balkan War. That raised for me a number of problems which I have tried to answer and in part have answered to my own satisfaction. On the more theoretical sides much has been suggested by the writings of Graham Wallas and his school. The position taken appears, now that the work is finished, to be a compromise between the position of MacDougall, with his great insistence on immediate instinct, and that taken by Trotter who finds all social phenomena explained by the fear of the individual for the social whole, with the consequent dominance of convention. I have shown that the social responses are in part due to each of these forces. They begin in a rudimentary way as instincts and are then determined by conventions and ideals developed through experience and imposed upon the group by the "herd instinct." It also seems necessary to insist that the result of the action of these forces is not unworthy. One obtains the impression from reading Trotter, at least, that the action of man in the mass is altogether deplorable, that all of his conventions lead, to undesirable results. One forgets in this view that reason itself is nothing more than a control of action and thought by wide experience and tradition, and that while conventions at times enforce an ultra conservatism, they also prevent unconsidered action on impulse, as well as thinking by uncontrolled association. This is an instance of a general tendency in ethics and psychology, to forget that a process when analyzed is the same process as that with which one started"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 314 pages) |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |