An Introduction to the Study of Society (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ... of many different kinds. Men who have been trained to think in much the same way about literature, science, art, and politics, naturally arrange themselves into congenial groups which are maintained with more or less permanency. (5) Religious Bodies, although in a general way included under societies, are of such importance as to require separate mention. Common religious belief is one of the most potent of social forces, and holds men in aggregates always compact and often indissoluble. (6) Common Language may be described, Common perhaps, rather as a condition than a cause of social combi-lansuase nations. It is so intimately associated with common ancestry and birthplace as to belong quite as much among the bonds of spontaneous aggregates as among those of voluntary combinations. (7) Political Nationality is a universal and Political generally efficient cohesive force in social aggregates. The na"onal"y love of a common country tends to hold men of different ancestry, classes, and creeds in a more or less compact union. Here, as elsewhere, tendency only is asserted and the possible existence of neutralizing forces is recognized. (8) International Aggregates are formed by such bonds of international common interest as are not limited in influence to any "es one nation. We find, therefore, social combinations which recognize no political boundaries, but include within the area of their associations members of many different nations. In Europe, society is stratified into (1) Aristocracy (hereditary, Illustrations official) and wealthy, (2) Middle Class, "third estate," or bourgeoisie, _., .', Soclal stratifi (3) Working Class, or "proletariat." Some sociologists have suggested ca, ion;n still another division, to include the economi...