Introduction to Sociology

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University of Southern California Press, 1917 - 343 էջ
 

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Էջ 283 - Summary, the prison weekly which circulates instead of the ordinary daily newspaper within the walls; and debate, in the presence of a teacher who guides and moderates the discussion. Trade instruction is made prominent. The aim of the institution is to send no man out, who is not prepared to do something well enough to be independent of the temptation to fraud or theft.
Էջ 110 - An overtired person is literally a poisoned person, poisoned by his own waste products. These wastes are poisonous impurities arising from the chemical processes of cellular life. They circulate in the blood, poisoning brain and nervous system, muscles, glands, and other organs until normally burned up by the oxygen brought by the blood, removed by the liver or kidneys, or eliminated through the lungs.
Էջ 162 - ... work, because the present organization of society is no longer able to feed them. And just here transpires one of the saddest chapters in human history. The machine which man invented to relieve him of labor and to produce value more rapidly has led to the factory system of industry, and the women and children are forced to follow the work to the factory. The machine is a wonderful expression of man's ingenuity, of his effort to create an artificial workman, to whom no wages have to be paid,...
Էջ 195 - Too many of us have been trying to get something out of the country and too few of us have been trying to serve it. Offices, appropriations, personal or class benefits, have been too generally the motive power that has kept the wheels of government moving. Too many of us have forgotten that a government which is to preserve liberty and do justice must have the heart and soul of the people behind it — not mere indifference.
Էջ 118 - The thing that most needs to be understood about play is, that it is not a luxury, but a necessity; it is not simply something that a child likes to have, it is something that he must have if he is to grow up.
Էջ 117 - Apparently the modern city sees in these girls only two possibilities, both of them commercial: first, a chance to utilize by day their new and tender labor power in its factories and shops, and then another chance in the evening to extract from them their petty wages by pandering to their love of pleasure.
Էջ 130 - Since the dominant interest in the life of a youth is play and not work, and since the best growth and development at this age comes from play and not from work, it seems that more attention should be given to an all-year playground service and that it should take into consideration the young working boys and girls quite as much as the children in the school.
Էջ 282 - ... is educational ; not meaning by that term the injection of information without assimilation, but the drawing out to its full natural and normal limit of every faculty of the body, mind, and soul of every man who passes through the
Էջ 92 - I get into a house and have a warm bed and begin to live on fine food, I get into a draft, and the first thing I know I am coughing and sneezing and threatened with pneumonia, and am altogether miserable. Atmospheric evils come from improper ventilation, and affect either the respiratory organs of the body or the skin. It has been supposed until recently that the presence of carbon dioxid gas in vitiated air was the chief evil caused by such air.
Էջ 170 - Congress in 1897, profit sharing is "the agreement, freely entered into, by which the employee receives a share, fixed in advance, of the profits.

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