Title Page

Preface

Contents

PAPERS 20

CHAPTER I. The Role of Psychologists in the Establishment of Better Human Relations / GARDNER MURPHY 20

CHAPTER II. Genetic Approach to Aggression as Part of the Individual's Total Development / RUTH STRANG 32

Concepts of Aggression 32

Development of Aggression 33

Modification of Aggression 41

CHAPTER III. Extension of "Neuropsychiatry and Cultural Behavior" / RICHARD M. BRICKNER 44

Some Regularities in Attitudes Learned in Studies of German Prisoners and Civilians 45

Some Derivatives of Father-Son Relationships 47

Summary of the German Cultural Paranoid Reaction Patterns and Some Underlying Factors 52

Normality of Paranoid Characteristics of This Type 53

Some Social Implications of the Normal Human Nervous System 54

Awareness and Insight in Social Therapy 55

CHAPTER IV. Some Aphorisms on Tension and Human Affairs in General / RUDOLF ALLERS 62

CHAPTER V. Science an the Study of Mankind / LAURA THOMPSON 84

CHAPTER VI. Anthropology and Ethics / ELIOT D. CHAPPLE 98

CHAPTER VII. The Comparative Study of Cultures and the Purposive Cultivation of Democratic Values, 1941-1949 / MARGARET MEAD 106

CHAPTER VIII. The Concept of Culture in American Education / STEWART G. COLE 128

The Characteristics of a Culture 130

The Traits of American Culture 132

American Culture and Education 137

CHAPTER IX. Transformation of Culture : A Postscript from Japan / GEORGE F. ROHRLICH 144

I 145

II 147

III 152

CHAPTER X. Attempts at Self-Interpretation in Contemporary Islam Section II / GUSTAVE E. VON GRUNEBAUM 154

I 154

II 156

III 165

IV 195

V 198

CHAPTER XI. Ethical Science / HENRY MARGENAU 204

I 204

II 207

III 212

CHAPTER XII. Relativity, Truth, and Values / PHILIPP FRANK 222

CHAPTER XIII. Science and World Democracy / CARYL P. HASKINS 234

CHAPTER XIV. The Institutionalization of Social Science and the Problems of the Conference / TALCOTT PARSONS 240

The Place of Scientific Investigation in Society 241

Religion and the Social System 248

Philosophy as Social Action 253

The Social Sciences 255

CHAPTER XV. Group Tensions in the Modern World / JOSEPH S. ROUCEK 264

The Birth of the Atomic Era 264

The Thin Line Between Internal and International Group Conflicts 266

Search for Power and Sovereignty 266

Pipe Dreams of Supervision by Law 267

The Growing Nightmare Presented by Utopians 268

Central Eastern Europe : The Focus in Ignorance 270

The Shadowland of Semantics 272

"The Bigger Lie..." 274

The "Enigma" of the U.S.S.R. 275

Myths and Words Versus Reality 277

Need for Reorientation of Our Ideological Conditioning 278

Need for Research In Our Time of Crisis 279

"Knowledge for What" 282

Realism and Idealism 282

CHAPTER XVI. Integrative Tendencies in International Relations / LOUIS WIRTH 286

CHAPTER XVII. The Problem of Establishing and Maintaining a Stable World Society - the Nature of Such a Society, the Conditions Prerequisite to Its Realization, and the Process of Building It / QUINCY WRIGHT 298

I 298

II 302

CHAPTER XVIII. Integration, 1939-1949, as Seen by the Political Scientist - Level, Locus, Time, and Temper / HERMAN FINER 310

I. The Meaning of Integration 310

II. How Much Integration Achieved? 311

III. Integration Via Level, Locus, Time, and Temper 313

IV. Level 315

V. Locus 321

VI. Time 324

VII. Temper 332

VIII. Conclusion 338

CHAPTER XIX. The Universal Peril : Perpetual Crisis and the Garrison-Prison State / HAROLD D. LASSWELL 342

CHAPTER XX. The Negative Revolutions and the Union of Europe / CARL J. FRIEDRICH 348

CHAPTER XXI. Nationalism, Communication, and Community : An Interim Report / KARL W. DEUTSCH 358

I. The Need for New Efforts in the Search for Peace : A General Problem and Some Small Steps 358

II. How Can We Understand Nationalism and Nationality? Why Should this Question Be Considered at this Time? 361

III. What Would Be Required of a More Adequate Theory of Nationalism and Nationality? 362

IV. Some Useful Concepts : Society, Culture, and Communication 363

V. Communication and the Concept of a People 368

VI. How Can This Concept of Nationality Be Tested? 371

VII. How Do Communications Habits Change? 378

CHAPTER XXII. Approaches to Economic Reform / ELI GINZBERG 386

CHAPTER XXIII. Economic Research in the Interest of Peace / RUPERT B. VANCE 392

I 392

II 394

III 396

CHAPTER XXIV. The Economics of Technological Change / JAMES KIP FINCH 400

CHAPTER XXV. Does Economic Research Build Bridges? / MORITZ J. BONN 412

I 412

II 414

III 416

IV 417

V 420

VI 422

VII 424

VIII 426

CHAPTER XXVI. The Ecology of Public Administration(The Tennessee Valley Authority as an Example) / GEORGE F. GANT 428

Water in the River 434

Water from the Land 436

After Fifteen Years 438

CHAPTER XXVII. Administrative Achievement in World Organization / DONALD C. STONE 442

Weakness of the Political Foundation 442

Difficulties in Way of Applying Administrative Know-How 444

The Problem of Coordinating the Several United Nations Agencies 446

Several Principles of Administration 447

The Importance of Leadership 449

Selection of Personnel 450

National Administrative Adjustment to International Organization 451

Conclusion 452

CHAPTER XXVIII. Unity in Difference / EDGAR S. BRIGHTMAN 454

I 455

II 460

III 461

IV 461

CHAPTER XXIX. Community of Understanding : Its Limits and Possibilities / ARTHUR E. MURPHY 472

I. Community of Understanding : the Postwar Problem 473

II. The Present Situation 484

III. Conclusions 492

CHAPTER XXX. Power, Anomie and Personality / WALTER G. MUELDER 496

I 496

II 501

III 506

CHAPTER XXXI. Education for Social Direction / HENRY N. WIEMAN 512

Benefits Resulting from this Aim 517

The New Society 518

Methods for Attaining the Proposed Aim 522

The Problem of Integration 523

CHAPTER XXXII. Freedom and Rights / PAUL WEISS 526

I 526

II 526

III 534

IV 537

V 540

VI 542

VII 547

CHAPTER XXXIII. The Golden Mean / WILLIAM SEIFRIZ 550

CHAPTER XXXIV. New Problems, New Philosophers / HARRY A. OVERSTREET 564

CHAPTER XXXV. The Maladjusted Ideology / LINCOLN REIS 572

CHAPTER XXXVI. Religion and Secularism / BEN ZION BOKSER 582

The Sacred and the Secular 583

The Secularization of Culture 584

Secular Influences in Religion 584

The Perils of a Secular Culture 587

The Sources of Secularism 589

Can We Halt the Drift to Secularism? 593

CHAPTER XXXVII. The Need for a Spiritual Revival(A Hindu View) / SWAMI NIKHILANANDA 600

CHAPTER XXXVIII. On The Religious Imagination / RICHARD KRONER 614

I 614

II 622

III 628

IV 634

CHAPTER XXXIX. The Perspective of Modern Materialism / ROY W. SELLARS 642

CHAPTER XL. Theology and Cultural Incoherence : A Restatement / AMOS N. WILDER 650

I 650

II 654

III 665

IV 673

CHAPTER XLI. The Motivational Power of Christianity for Democracy / NELS F. S. FERRÉ 678

CHAPTER XLII. Religious Philosophy and Intergroup Progress / JOHN LAFARGE, S.J. 696

I 697

II 699

III 701

IV 703

CHAPTER XLIII. Supplement to "The Christian Basis for Enduring Peace" / JOHN C. BENNETT 714

I. Postwar Reconciliation 714

II. The Atomic Bomb 716

III. The United Nations 717

IV. The East-West Conflict 718

Conclusion 720

CHAPTER XLIV. Progress Toward Integration in Morality / ROBERT M. SCOON 722

I 722

II 724

III 730

CHAPTER XLV. In Re-accentuation of the Negative / T. V. SMITH 736

Résumé of the Previous Article 736

I 737

II 740

III 742

IV 743

CHAPTER XLVI. On Nurturing the Democratic Ideal in Society / SIMON GREENBERG 748

The Meaning of Democracy 749

CHAPTER XLVII. The Stake of the Arts in the Democratic Way of Life : A Postscript / WALTER PACH 762

CHAPTER XLVIII. Art as One of the Bridges of Cultural Understanding - Retrospect and Prospect / MILTON C. NAHM 776

APPENDIX 804

I. The Destiny of Nations / LYMAN BRYSON 804

II. Foundations of World Organization / RICHARD P. McKEON ; JACOB VINER 820

III. 'Twixt Chaos and Conformism / CLEM C. LINNENBERG, JR. 852

CONTRIBUTORS TO "PERSPECTIVES ON A TROUBLED DECADE" 882

Program 886

TENTH CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION IN THEIR RELATION TO THE DEMOCRATIC WAY OF LIFE 886

PARTICIPANTS IN PROGRAM 893

Index 896

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