An Introduction to Social PsychologyCourier Corporation, 1 jan 2003 - 524 pagina's A pioneering work in psychology, this enormously influential book served as a catalyst in the study of the foundations of social behavior. Ironically, its approach marked such a dramatic departure from contemporary trends that it stimulated little follow-up research at the time of its 1908 publication. In recent years, however, the author's ideas have been resurrected in sociobiological reasoning, making the republication of this systematic treatise particularly timely. McDougall's work grounds social behavior in biology, focusing on the individual and attributing most social behavior to instinct. This reasoning makes his work one of the first in modern psychology to take human motivation as its central concern. As one of the initial texts of social psychology, it assisted in laying the foundations of a new discipline, separating the field from its forerunners, sociology and general psychology. McDougall's emphasis on the instinctive basis of social phenomena also helped promote the individualistic approach typical of modern social psychology. Popular, long-lived, and ever-relevant, this landmark work is guaranteed a wide audience among teachers and students of psychology. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE MENTAL CHARACTER OF MAN OF PRIMARY IMPORTANCE FOR HIS LIFE IN SOCIETY | 17 |
THE PRINCIPAL INSTINCTS AND THE PRIMARY EMOTIONS OF MAN | 39 |
SOME GENERAL OR NONSPECIFIC INNATE TENDENCIES | 77 |
THE NATURE OF THE SENTIMENTS AND THE CONSTITUTION OF SOME OF THE COMPLEX EMOTIONS | 104 |
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SENTIMENTS | 137 |
THE GROWTH OF SELFCONSCIOUSNESS AND OF THE SELFREGARDING SENTIMENT | 150 |
THE ADVANCE TO THE HIGHER PLANE OF SOCIAL CONDUCT | 180 |
THE INSTINCTS OF ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION | 277 |
IMITATION PLAY AND HABIT | 280 |
THEORIES OF ACTION | 303 |
THE SEX INSTINCT | 331 |
THE DERIVED EMOTIONS | 364 |
NOTES ON CHAPTERS III TO IX | 386 |
INSTINCTS OF MAN IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT DISCUSSION | 405 |
THE STRUCTURE OF CHARACTER | 431 |
VOLITION | 197 |
THE OPERATION OF THE PRIMARY TENDENCIES OF THE HUMAN MIND IN THE LIFE OF SOCIETIES | 228 |
THE INSTINCT OF PUGNACITY | 240 |
THE GREGARIOUS INSTINCT | 255 |
THE INSTINCTS THROUGH WHICH RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS AFFECT SOCIAL LIFE | 260 |
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