Journal of Applied Sociology, Volumes 6-7Southern California Sociological Society and University of Southern California., 1921 - Social problems |
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Page 308 - If a bell was rung, after a time the flow of saliva could be induced by the bell without the food. The bell, in this case, is a conditional stimulus; the reaction, a conditioned reflex. Watson found that the reflex may be conditioned not alone at the level of the simple physiological reflex, but in the case of emotional reactions. Conditioning in this case would mean that when an emotionally exciting object stimulates the subject simultaneously with one not directly emotionally exciting, the latter...
Page 43 - My conclusion is that public opinions must be organized for the press if they are to be sound, not by the press as is the case today.
Page 19 - Provisions for old age made by women teachers in the public schools of Massachusetts. A study by the department of research of the Women's educational and industrial union. Boston. Mass., 1921. 122 p. graphs, tables. 8*. (Studies in economic relations of women, vol.
Page 2 - But applied sociology is not government or politics, nor civic or social reform. It does not itself apply sociological principles; it seeks only to show how they may be applied. It is a science, not an art. The most that it claims to do is to lay down certain general principles as guides to social and political action.
Page 38 - Social case work consists of those processes which develop personality through adjustments consciously effected, individual by individual, between men and their social environment.
Page 240 - ... (a) the interpretation of a treaty ; (b) any question of international law ; (c) the existence of any fact which, if established, would constitute a breach of an international obligation ; (d) the nature or extent of reparation to be made for the breach of an international obligation ; (e) the interpretation of a sentence passed by the Court.
Page 293 - Swaraj can only be built upon the assumption that most of what is national is on the whole sound. If the view here put forth be correct, the Swadeshi movement ought to be carried on vigorously.
Page 46 - We need not have \ poverty in our midst a generation longer than we want it. / By setting to work deliberately to balance up our population, making ignorance and lack of skill to disappear, and making technical training and constructive talent to increase, we can, in a short space of time, make low wages and poverty a thing of the past.
Page 240 - In the event of a dispute as to whether a certain case comes within any of the categories above mentioned, the matter shall be settled by the decision of the Court.
Page 67 - Intelligence is a general capacity of an individual consciously to adjust his thinking to new requirements: it is general mental adaptability to new problems and conditions of life.