Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. The Principles of Psychology - الصفحة 121بواسطة William James - 1890عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...that you can't kill him all at once. Letter to Carl Stumpf, 6 February 1887. 1920:263. 7 Habit is. . . the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious...by those brought up to tread therein. It keeps the fishermen and the deck-hand at sea through the winter; it holds the miner in his darkness, and nails... | |
| Warwick Organizational Behaviour Staff - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 564
...imprisons him upon a circular track. 'Habit is the great flywheel of society,' wrote William James, 'its most precious conservative agent.' It alone is...and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprising of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted... | |
| Howard Rachlin - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 258
...other than the study of the concept of habit as William James (1890/1981) conceived it: "Habit is ... the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious...what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance" (p. 125). you smoke this cigarette tonight? Why suffer the pain of abstinence tonight if tomorrow you... | |
| Jay Sanford Shivers - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...of William James's biological approach to psychology. James, in his classic essay on habit, states: Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its...precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps all of us within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings... | |
| James H. Bunn - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...of Peirce, ed. Justus Buchler (New York: Dover, 1955), 270. See especially James's chapter, "Habit": "Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society,...of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor" (vol. 1, 121). For Gadamer's rehabilitation of prejudice and the Enlightenment's "prejudice against... | |
| Jeffrey P. Sklansky - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...Instead of the social contract, he described habit as the foundation of social order and class harmony. "Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent," he wrote. "It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of... | |
| James MacLynn Wilce - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...through habit always as a function of a larger social structural and historical milieu. For James: Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its...being deserted by those brought up to tread therein. 1James 1950 [1890]: 1211 Habit is thus part of the foundations of more complex social phenomena. Emotion... | |
| Gil Richard Musolf - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...— have predisposed habits. Thus, habits function (as does socialization) to maintain social order. "Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its...of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor" (James 1984, 132-33). And for social control (James 1984, 133): It alone prevents the hardest and most... | |
| Bill Brown - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...socio-economic account of habit as the "most precious conservative agent." "It alone," James writes, "keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and...of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor" (125): It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those... | |
| Cornel West, Eddie S. Glaude - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 1084
...fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative force." Habits forestalled revolutions, prevented "the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein."64 Habits sanctioned conduct. They reinforced traditional ways of doing things and provided... | |
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