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The Mind and Society (Italian: Trattato di Sociologia Generale, lit. "Treatise on General Sociology") is a 1916 book by the Italian sociologist and economist Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923). In this book Pareto presents the first sociological cycle theory , centered on the concept of an elite social class .
Bernard McGrane has championed the idea in Sociology of exercising the beginner's mind. This idea was adopted from the Zen Buddhist custom of Shoshin. The concept of "beginner's mind" suggests that sociology should view the world without presuppositions, thus bringing new insight into the field. Those preconceptions are the impediments that ...
On Social Freedom: or the Necessary Limits of Individual Freedom Arising Out of the Conditions of Our Social Life is an essay regarding individual and societal freedom initially thought to have been written by the British philosopher John Stuart Mill, [1] but later found to have been falsely attributed to him. [2]
John Rogers Searle (American English pronunciation: / s ɜːr l /; born July 31, 1932) [4] is an American philosopher widely noted for contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy.
5. “Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.” 6. “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
Cognitive liberty, or the "right to mental self-determination", is the freedom of an individual to control their own mental processes, cognition, and consciousness.It has been argued to be both an extension of, and the principle underlying, the right to freedom of thought.
Show your patriotic spirit this 4th of July and other American holidays with these inspiring freedom quotes from the Founding Fathers and other famous figures.
Berger's Invitation to Sociology outlines his approach to the field of sociology in these humanistic terms. Methodologically, sociologists should attempt to understand and observe human behaviour outside the context of its social setting and free from whatever influence a sociologist's personal biases or feelings might be.