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The forms of group life.

Young, Kimball

Pages: 3 –17

Man is a social being. He cannot long survive without contact with his fellows. By group life we mean the interaction of people with each other in terms of some common or like interests. Life in association varies greatly: a student has habits in a fraternity that are quite different from his...

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The nature of culture.

Young, Kimball

Pages: 18 –29

Our understanding of group life would remain incomplete were we to leave the matter as it is given in the previous chapter. Everywhere men living together have developed common ideas, attitudes, and habits without which they could not carry on. In the present chapter we shall examine these...

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How culture grows and changes.

Young, Kimball

Pages: 30 –56

Social life is never static. Even in a tradition-ridden and isolated society individual differences make for slight changes. In this way even so-called stable societies show in time modifications in culture. Today, with easy travel and communication, with the whole world more or less bound up in...

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The expanding world of interaction.

Young, Kimball

Pages: 57 –88

Against the background of group organization and culture, we must next examine the major changes in the nature and extent of social interaction in the modern world. These changes are characterized by the shift from the primary to the secondary community, with all that this means in the extension...

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Original nature, heredity, and environment.

Young, Kimball

Pages: 89 –108

In no field of psychology or the social sciences has more nonsense been produced than that regarding original nature and the relation of heredity and environment. Popular misconceptions about these facts are carried over into serious books, articles, and into the classroom by many teachers....

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Personality.

Young, Kimball

Pages: 109 –134

The person plays his various parts upon the stage of life, and passes out at his last scene, leaving the drama in the hands of those who come after him. In this chapter we shall discuss the way in which society and culture prepare and fix the individual's part in this drama. It is the business of...

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Geography and culture.

Young, Kimball

Pages: 137 –152

Man's survival depends upon his adaptation both to his geographical and to his social-cultural environments. We have already sketched the chief features of the latter. (See Chapter II.) Here we shall deal with the geographic factors. These are traditionally classified into those of (1) the...

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Race.

Young, Kimball

Pages: 153 –166

Properly speaking, the racial history of mankind is the subject matter of physical anthropology. In this chapter we shall be concerned chiefly with the description of the living races from the standpoint of their physical and mental characteristics. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all...

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Problems of world population.

Young, Kimball

Pages: 167 –185

There is a clear relationship between the size and composition of population and the nature of the societal order and culture. It is a commonplace today that the cultural changes in the last 175 years are more vast and far-reaching than corresponding changes in the previous 5,000 years. And rapid...

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Differentials in population.

Young, Kimball

Pages: 186 –212

Not only are there important problems of population which concern the whole world and especially the various national units in relation to each other, but within particular societies the social composition of the population varies considerably according to biological and cultural factors. The...

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