Human Nature and the Social Order

Human Nature and the Social Order
Title Human Nature and the Social Order PDF eBook
Author Charles Horton Cooley
Publisher
Pages 440
Release 1902
Genre Psychology
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This work remains a pioneer sociological treatise on American culture. By understanding the individual not as the product of society but as its mirror image, Cooley concludes that the social order cannot be imposed from outside human nature but that it arises from the self. Cooley stimulated pedagogical inquiry into the dynamics of society with the publication of Human Nature and the Social Order in 1902. Human Nature and the Social Order is something more than an admirable ethical treatise. It is also a classic work on the process of social communication as the "very stuff" of which the self is made.

Human Nature and the Social Order

Human Nature and the Social Order
Title Human Nature and the Social Order PDF eBook
Author Edward Lee Thorndike
Publisher
Pages 373
Release 1969
Genre Psychology
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Human Nature and the Social Order

Human Nature and the Social Order
Title Human Nature and the Social Order PDF eBook
Author Charles Horton Cooley
Publisher
Pages 562
Release 1902
Genre Individualism
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The Fair Society

The Fair Society
Title The Fair Society PDF eBook
Author Peter Corning
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 253
Release 2011-04
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0226116271

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We've been told, again and again, that life is unfair. But what if we're wrong simply to resign ourselves to this situation? Drawing on the evidence from our evolutionary history and the emergent science of human nature, this title shows that we have an innate sense of fairness.

Hierarchy, History, and Human Nature

Hierarchy, History, and Human Nature
Title Hierarchy, History, and Human Nature PDF eBook
Author Donald E. Brown
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 406
Release 1988
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780816510603

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"Here is a book that I can strongly recommend for a variety of reasons. It is well written, it is scholarly, but its greatest appeal lies in the posing of an important question and in the offering of a satisfying (to this reviewer, at least) answer."ÑJournal of Historical Geography "This is an intriguing and stimulating study of historical differences in the indigenous historiography of parts of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe."ÑAmerican Anthropologist."

Two Major Works

Two Major Works
Title Two Major Works PDF eBook
Author Charles Horton Cooley
Publisher Glencoe, Ill., Free P
Pages 974
Release 1909
Genre Individualism
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What's Left of Human Nature?

What's Left of Human Nature?
Title What's Left of Human Nature? PDF eBook
Author Maria Kronfeldner
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 335
Release 2018-10-16
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0262347970

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A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges. Human nature has always been a foundational issue for philosophy. What does it mean to have a human nature? Is the concept the relic of a bygone age? What is the use of such a concept? What are the epistemic and ontological commitments people make when they use the concept? In What's Left of Human Nature? Maria Kronfeldner offers a philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against contemporary criticism. In particular, she takes on challenges related to social misuse of the concept that dehumanizes those regarded as lacking human nature (the dehumanization challenge); the conflict between Darwinian thinking and essentialist concepts of human nature (the Darwinian challenge); and the consensus that evolution, heredity, and ontogenetic development result from nurture and nature. After answering each of these challenges, Kronfeldner presents a revisionist account of human nature that minimizes dehumanization and does not fall back on outdated biological ideas. Her account is post-essentialist because it eliminates the concept of an essence of being human; pluralist in that it argues that there are different things in the world that correspond to three different post-essentialist concepts of human nature; and interactive because it understands nature and nurture as interacting at the developmental, epigenetic, and evolutionary levels. On the basis of this, she introduces a dialectical concept of an ever-changing and “looping” human nature. Finally, noting the essentially contested character of the concept and the ambiguity and redundancy of the terminology, she wonders if we should simply eliminate the term “human nature” altogether.