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"The authors of this book, in common with many other specialists and scientific organizations, have faith in the application of science to human affairs, and they do not feel that either the alleged impossibility of a science of human social behavior or the supposedly inevitable delay in its development is to be taken for granted without a close inspection of the situation and a careful consideration of alternatives and possibilities. We believe that a better communication of extant theory and knowledge across disciplinary lines will not only pave the way for a more comprehensive approach to human problems, but will also stimulate the scope and predictive power of behavior science, including all the specialties involved. Yet we have felt that something more constructive is needed than merely a collective blast of exhortation. There is little to be gained by adding our voices to the lamentations and scoldings of those who angrily demand that social science immediately "catch up" with nuclear physics. If the sciences that are supposed to illuminate the behavior of man, his societies, and his cultures are to be collectively rather than separately helpful to mankind in its uneasy state, we must first of all, it would seem, understand what these disciplines have in common. As a modest step in this direction we have thought it most convenient to begin with an examination of certain of the mutual problems of those three "human science disciplines" that have come to be considered the "core" sciences of human behavior in society--namely, anthropology, psychology, and sociology"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

I / Philosophical Foundations -- 1. Phenomenology: A Viewing -- 2. Phenomenology and Existentialism: Husserl and Sartre on Intentionality -- 3. Phenomenology and the Natural Attitude -- 4. The Empirical and Transcendental Ego -- 5. Being-in-Reality -- 6. Jean-Paul Sartre's Philosophy of Freedom -- II / Aesthetics and Literature -- 7. Toward a Phenomenology of the Aesthetic Object -- 8. Phenomenology and the Theory of Literature -- 9. Existentialism and the Theory of Literature -- 10. Existential Categories in Contemporary Literature -- 11. The Privileged Moment: A Study in the Rhetoric of Thomas Wolfe -- 12. Albert Camus: Death at the Meridian -- III / History and the Social Sciences -- 13. A Study in Philosophy and the Social Sciences -- 14. Knowledge and Alienation: Some Remarks on Mannheim's Sociology of Knowledge -- 15. History as a Finite Province of Meaning -- 16. History, Historicity, and the Alchemistry of Time -- 17. Causation as a Structure of the Lebenswelt -- 18. Death and Situation.

"The foundation of this book is a particular experience in applying some of the principles and methods of social science, especially cultural anthropology, sociology and psychiatry, to the wartime analysis of Japanese morale. The work was done for policy makers in the Government who needed to know about the nature of Japanese morale, its strength, what changes were occurring and what, if anything, could be achieved by psychological warfare. After victory it became possible to re-examine many of the conclusions with the benefit of later information; early diagnoses were compared with how things did, in fact, turn out. Now, due to the lifting of security restrictions, it is possible to report the result. The aim is to present one set of experiences and some suggestions arising from them in the hope that they are pertinent to the employment of social science in a world situation where it is badly needed. In short, there is here an orientation in the light of which a particular account is given and some general conclusions drawn. The presentation is planned in that order: Part I, The Setting, concerns the point of view that permeates the book; Part II, A Case History in Applied Social Science, tells the story of a wartime analysis of Japanese morale; Part III, The Use of Applied Social Science, deals with the implications for the present and future"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

"The approach to this textbook is interactionist. It is hoped that this framework permeates the entire substantive area of the book. While the major part of this book is thus dedicated to presenting the subject matter of social psychology with this interactionist viewpoint, a minor part (quantitatively speaking) is devoted to an account of the scope and method of social psychology, its long history as a social philosophy, and its short history as a social science. There is included a critique of postulates and values in social science which, it is hoped, is sufficiently developed so that it is not necessary to offer negative and reproachful comments on modern viewpoints dealing with empirical evidence. In fact, the effort has been to reduce to a minimum the polemic approach to the subject and simply present that large and fascinating field which envelops parts of sociology, psychology, psychiatry, and anthropology as a scientific body of knowledge in its own right. With the anchoring points of the historical backgrounds and the philosophical discussion confined to one chapter, the Catholic college student should suffer no adverse reaction from his exposure to the remainder of the text, which is purely social-psychological as distinct from, say, a sectarian bias. Can it be hoped that this volume will contribute to the development of this subject in the Catholic college? It is the author's expectation that a large measure of the reward for this undertaking will be in the satisfaction that would result from such a development"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

"This book is designed to orient youth to the major social forces operating in modern society and show how they affect individual adjustment and social problems. It is an analysis of contemporary social problems as they emerge from the experience of man in a rapidly changing culture which roots deeply in a more stable past. In style the book is designed for the college student in the lower division who is usually escorted through one of three courses: social problems, social pathology, or social science orientation. Either course is at best a smattering presentation of many problems rather than a penetrating analysis of any. The most one can hope to achieve is to develop a point of view, a perspective for understanding. To help in this vital objective, Part I gives a brief survey of the disturbing forces of a dynamic society which are the underlying cause of the numerous symptomatic manifestations called social problems"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)

I/Introduction -- General Theoretical Orientation -- The Relation of Sociological Theory to Study of Time -- II/The Problem of Time -- Jean Piaget's Definition -- Is Multiple Time Possible? -- Bergson and the Problem of Time -- The Problem of Time in Contemporary Physics -- The Multiple Manifestations of Time in Different Sciences -- Social Time -- Varieties of Social Time -- Sociological Time and Historical Time -- III/The Depth Levels and Social Time -- Ecological Time -- Time Characteristic of Organizations -- The Time of Conduct of Some Regularity of Patterns, of Rules, of Signals and Signs -- Time of Social Roles and Collective Attitudes -- Time of Symbols, Ideas and Collective Values -- Collective Mentality and Time -- IV/The Micro-Social Framework and its Time: The Manifestations of Sociability -- Time Belonging to Mass Sociability -- Community Sociability and Its Time -- Time Characteristic of Communion Sociability -- The Time Characteristic of Approach, Withdrawal and Mixed Interpersonal and Intergroup Relations -- V/The Particular Groupings and Their Social Time -- The Criteria for Classification of Groups -- Time of Groupings Classified According to Their Duration -- Time of Groupings Classified by Their Rhythm -- Time of Groups Classified According to Their Dispersion -- Time of Groups Classified According to Mode of Admission -- Time of Groups Classified by Functions -- Time of Groupings Classified According to Their Orientation -- VI/The Social Classes and Their Scales of Social Time -- The Peasant Class and Its Scales of Social Time -- The Bourgeois Class and Its Scales of Social Time -- The Proletarian Social Time Scale -- The Middle Classes and the Techno-Bureaucrats; Their Social Time Scales -- VII/Global Societies and Their Time Scales -- The Time Scales of Archaic Societies -- The Types of Historical Societies -- Charismatic Theocracies and Their Social Time Scales -- The Patriarchal Societies and Their Scales of Time -- The Feudal Societies and Their Time Scales -- The Ancient City-States Becoming Empires and Their Time Scales -- VIII/The Time Scales of Modern Societies -- Nascent Capitalistic Global Societies and Their Time Scales -- The Time Scales of Democratic-Liberal Global Societies with Developed Competitive Capitalism -- IX/The Time Scales of Contemporary Societies -- The Time Scales of the Managerial Society of Organized Capitalism -- The Time Scales of the Fascist Society Based on Techno-Bureaucracy -- The Time Scales of the Planned, Centralized, Collectivist State -- The Time Scales of the Planned, Decentralized, Pluralistic, Collectivistic Society -- Conclusion.

"This book is designed as an introduction to statistics for social scientists. It is comprehensive enough to give insight into the logic involved in statistical manipulation, yet simple enough to be understood by anyone who has taken an elementary algebra course. In order to facilitate the use of statistical technique in the analysis of social science data, most of the topics begin with a social science problem, and new concepts and techniques are introduced in solving the problem. Unless the source is specified, the data are hypothetical. Problems from recent quantitative research findings in sociology and peripheral fields are included in the exercises. Examples are selected where statistical techniques are used in a theoretical framework"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).