Readings in Sociology to Accompany An Introduction to SociologyJerome Davis, Harry Elmer Barnes D.C. Heath, 1927 - 1065 páginas |
Conteúdo
| 3 | |
| 41 | |
| 58 | |
| 60 | |
| 79 | |
| 105 | |
| 120 | |
| 139 | |
| 481 | |
| 492 | |
| 517 | |
| 523 | |
| 526 | |
| 533 | |
| 542 | |
| 552 | |
| 145 | |
| 181 | |
| 190 | |
| 201 | |
| 209 | |
| 216 | |
| 231 | |
| 243 | |
| 285 | |
| 299 | |
| 306 | |
| 316 | |
| 323 | |
| 333 | |
| 357 | |
| 376 | |
| 385 | |
| 397 | |
| 416 | |
| 420 | |
| 430 | |
| 436 | |
| 442 | |
| 459 | |
| 461 | |
| 566 | |
| 572 | |
| 585 | |
| 592 | |
| 607 | |
| 616 | |
| 622 | |
| 637 | |
| 645 | |
| 663 | |
| 691 | |
| 730 | |
| 754 | |
| 778 | |
| 809 | |
| 827 | |
| 831 | |
| 849 | |
| 875 | |
| 892 | |
| 912 | |
| 948 | |
| 963 | |
| 1010 | |
Termos e frases comuns
agriculture America ancient animals basis become birth-rate capitalism century character cities civilization clan commerce common constitution continued coöperation crops culture democracy discovery economic effect ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON empire England environment Europe European evidence exogamy fact factors feudal system force France German Greek group marriage hand HARRY ELMER BARNES human idea ideal important increase Indians individual Industrial Revolution influence institutions intellectual interests invention Iroquois Italy labor land larvæ less living machines manorial manufacturing material means medieval ment metropolitan Middle Ages mind modern nature North organization oriental origin period phratry physical political population practically present primitive problems produced progress Protestantism race Reformation regions result Roman Roman law Russia scientific social social democracy society stage T. H. Morgan theory things thought tion to-day trade tribes United wealth whole York
Passagens mais conhecidas
Página 134 - Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou Moon in the valley of Ajalon.
Página 125 - This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen : who having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning...
Página 307 - ... That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends ; that restless, nervous energy;* that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom — these are traits of the frontier, or traits called out elsewhere because of the existence of the...
Página 167 - It led almost immediately to his second law, that the straight line joining the planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in any two equal intervals of time.
Página 399 - To enter fully into this question, and to enumerate all the causes that have hitherto influenced human improvement, would be much beyond the power of an individual. The principal object of the present essay is to examine the effects of one great cause intimately united with the very nature of man; which, though it has been constantly and powerfully operating since the commencement of society, has been little noticed by the writers who have treated this subject.
Página 169 - I deduced that the forces which keep the Planets in their orbs must be reciprocally as the squares of their distances from the centers about which they revolve: and thereby compared the force requisite to keep the Moon in her orb with the force of gravity at the surface of the earth, and found them answer pretty nearly.
Página 241 - Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. ; As wealth accumulates on his hands, his own unaided effort will not avail to sufficiently put his opulence in evidence by this method. The aid of friends and competitors is therefore brought in by resorting to the giving of valuable presents and expensive feasts and entertain^ ments.
Página 400 - By that law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man, the effects of these two unequal powers must be kept equal. This implies a strong and constantly operating check on population from the difficulty of subsistence.
Página 242 - The test to which all expenditure must be brought in an attempt to decide that point is the question whether it serves directly to enhance human life on the whole — whether it furthers the life process taken impersonally.
Página 400 - But as by that law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man, population can never actually increase beyond the lowest nourishment capable of supporting it ; a strong check on population, from the difficulty of acquiring food, must be constantly in operation.