Society and Its Surplus: A Study in Social EvolutionD. Appleton, 1924 - 581 pagina's |
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accumulation achievement activity American appears become bourgeoisie capital capitalistic cent century China civilization common coöperative course culture degree distribution dominant E. A. Ross economic surplus elements empire endowed environment equal ethnic existence exploitation fact factor favorable force Franz Oppenheimer G. D. H. Cole G. P. Putnam's Sons give Graham Wallas guild guild socialism human Ibid income increase individual industrial society instance instincts institutions interests Irving Fisher J. A. Hobson labor land less living Macmillan masses matter means ment mental modern moral nations nature nomic organic energy personality physical plutocracy political society population possession primitive production proletariat race redistribution revolution rise ruling class social control social energy social order social process social surplus Sociology sort stage structure superior tends things tion to-day tradition tribal tribe United vital energy vital surplus wealth whole York
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Pagina 522 - ... its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein. It keeps the fisherman and the deckhand at sea through the winter; it holds the miner in his darkness and nails the countryman to his log cabin and his lonely farm through all the months of snow; it protects...
Pagina 522 - Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.
Pagina 550 - When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character. Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another.
Pagina 425 - dangerous class," the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution ; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue.
Pagina 527 - I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy, By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
Pagina 469 - To be bred in a place of estimation ; to see nothing low and sordid from one's infancy ; to be taught to respect one's self; to be habituated to the censorial inspection of the public eye; to look early to public opinion ; to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the wide-spread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society...
Pagina 469 - ... and duty ; to be formed to the greatest degree of vigilance, foresight, and circumspection, in a state of things in which no fault is committed with impunity, and the slightest mistakes draw on the most ruinous consequences— to be led to a guarded and regulated conduct, from a sense that you are...
Pagina 469 - TA. true natural aristocracy is not a separate interest in the state, or separable from it. It is an essential integrant part of any large body rightly constituted...
Pagina 36 - 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.
Pagina 469 - ... to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the widespread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society; to have leisure to read, to reflect, to converse; to be enabled to draw the court and attention of the wise and learned wherever they are to be found; to be habituated in armies to command and to...