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Human Nature and the Social Order by [by] Edward L. Thorndike. Edited and abridged by Geraldine Jonçich Clifford is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Human Nature and the Social Order about?

Publication of this abridgement returns to intellectual commerce a major statement by one of the founders of exact social research. An early attempt to effect an integration of the social sciences, the massive original of 1940 exceeded the attention span of many readers, and it is hoped that this more readable edition will spark a renewal of the debate over its ideas. These excerpts from the editor's introduction underline some of the main"In Thorndike's own belief, individual salvation and public welfare lay most securely in the recourse to facts, a more trustworthy base than is character-building, given Thorndike's essentially pessimistic views of human nature in the abstract."Most social thinkers "could not accept Thorndike's hereditarian conclusions. Their own professionalism, however, caused them to agree with the position that he accorded to trained leadership, to expert judgmentanother of the key ideas of Human Nature and the Social Order...""Good genes, plus the scientific habits of the mind learned and powers trained, he believed to be the superior predictors of those who would function best as the impartial, objective benefactors of mankindif only the men in power would s

Author

[by] Edward L. Thorndike. Edited and abridged by Geraldine Jonçich Clifford

Publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Published

1969

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262200165

Subjects

Sociology, Psychology, Political Science