A Hoosier Village : : A Sociological Study. With Special Reference to Social Causation / / Newell Leroy Sims.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Sims, Newell Leroy,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1912]; ©1912
• Year of Publication: 1912
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

A study of a "Hoosier" village in Indiana, home of the author. The first part covers the history and description of the community, looking at social development. The second part examines unique phenomena within the community and what may have caused them. This town is referred to as Aton,...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I. The Social Development of Aton
• Section I. The Social Population
• Chapter I. The Place, Its Situation and Environment
• Chapter II. Aggregation
• Section II. The Social Organization
• Chapter I. Economic Activity
• Chapter II. Juridical Activity
• Chapter III. Agencies of Unorganized Social Self-Control
• Chapter IV. Political Activity
• Chapter V. Religious Activities
• Chapter VI. Educational Activity
• Chapter VII. Co-Operative Association
• Section III. The Social Mind
• Chapter I. Social Survivals: Social Egotism, Superstition, Magic
• Chapter II. Conflict
• Chapter III. Imitation
• Chapter IV. Social Democracy
• Chapter V. Religious Standards
• Chapter VI. Ethical Standards
• Chapter VII. Forces Determining Social Pleasures
• Chapter VIII. Pleasures of Physical Activity
• Chapter IX. Pleasures of Receptive Sensation
• Chapter X. Pleasures of Emotional Ideation
• Chapter XI. Pleasures of Ideation
• Part II. Social Causation
• Chapter I. The Origin of Magic
• Chapter II. Religion
• Chapter III. Politics
• Chapter IV. Democracy
• Chapter V. Pleasure
• Chapter VI. The Social Environment and the Individual
• Chapter VII. Progress