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Edward A. Ross was born in Virden, Illinois, on December 12, 1866. His father was a farmer, and his mother a schoolteacher.
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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY CHAPTER I the nature and scope of social psychology Social psychology, as the writer conceives it, studies the Sodal Psy-psychic planes and currents that come into existence among men in consequence of their association. It seeks social planes to understand and account for those uniformities in feeling and current, belief, or volition - and hence in action - which are due to the interaction of human beings, i.e., to social causes. No two persons have just the same endowment. Looking at their heredity, we should expect people to be far more dissimilar and individual than we actually find them to be. The aligning power of association triumphs over diversity of temperament and experience. There ought to be as many religious creeds as there are human beings; but wc find people ranged under a few great religions. It is the same in respect to dress, diet, pastimes, or moral ideas. The individuality each has received from the hand of nature is largely ef Table of Contents Chapter I; The Nature and Scope of Social Psychology i Social psychology treats of planes and currents Relation of social psychology to sociology proper A common environment or experience does not produce social planes Race traits are not social planes Such planes arise from interactions Social psychology explains both society and the individual Divisions How planes of sentiment regarding slavery formed Factors in the formation of religious planes Imitation vs Affinity; CHAPTER II; Suggestibility; The higher psychic growths imply association Much of one's mental content comes from others Psychic resonance Sub-human suggestibility Nature men Culture men (^Suggestibility in relation to age^ j£mpera-ment, and sex Women more suggestible than meD In the normal state indirect suggestion succeeds best Effect of fasting; of fatigue and hysteria Nordau's theory An alternative explanation Theory of hypnotic phenomena Normal and abnormal sug
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Edward A. Ross was born in Virden, Illinois, on December 12, 1866. His father was a farmer, and his mother a schoolteacher.
At 20 Ross graduated from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, lowa; at 22, after two years as a teacher at the Ford Dodge Commercial Institute, he left for graduate study at the University of Berlin; and at 24 he received his doctorate in political economy at Johns Hopkins University.
In 1893 Ross was appointed full professor at Leland Stanford University, where he remained until his celebrated dismissal, in 1900, over the question of his right to speak out as a reformer on public issues. After five years at the University of Nebraska, he left in 1906 for the University of Wisconsin, famed for its Progressive-minded faculty and teachings. He spent the rest of his career at Wisconsin, first as professor of sociology and then as department chairman. He retired in 1937 and died in Madison. Ross achieved national fame as a writer and popular lecturer. He authored 27 books and over 300 articles. His work can best be understood as the creative response of a reform-minded sociologist to the problems produced by the rapid industrialization and urbanization of the nation. Social Control (1901), a classic in American sociology, surveyed the institutions and values that would be needed to maintain individual freedom and social stability in an industrial order. Social Psychology (1908), the first textbook published in that field in the United States, similarly delineated the role of public opinion, custom, ceremony, and convention in maintaining social stability. The Principles of Sociology (1920, 1930, 1937), for many years one of the most popular texts in the field, stressed the role that the social processes can play in ensuring human progress. More explicitly reformist in outlook were Ross's many books for the layman. Sin and Society (1907) established Ross as a major figure in Progressive thought; other popular works advocating social reform include Changing America (1909) and The Social Trend (1922). He also published many books on social conditions in Europe, Asia, and Africa. In 1917 he went to Russia to report on the Bolshevik Revolution and for many years advocated recognition of the Soviet Union by the U. S. government and an appreciation of the improvements the Soviets brought to the economic and social life of the Russian people. For a time Ross was active as a nativist. In his early career he espoused the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon peoples and advocated immigration restriction to prevent a large-scale influx of southern and eastern Europeans to the United States. In the 19206 his nativism included a program of eugenics and the nationwide prohibition of liquor. By 1930 Ross shed these notions and spent the greater part of his efforts promoting the New Deal reform and the freedoms of the individual. He served as the national chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union (1940 - 1950). As a popularizer of the notion that the purpose of sociology is the reform of society, Ross had no peer among American sociologists in his lifetime. An erudite scholar, inspiring lecturer, courageous reformer, and uncompromising champion of freedom for the individual, he fulfilled the role he established for himself admirably.
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Quotations:
"The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board. "
"A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge. "
"In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in society a longer lever to work with. "
"There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell. "
"Already I notice a feeling of 'If this be sociology, Good Lord deliver us. ' However sociology has endured many things like it and my faith in its ultimate triumph never wavers. "