社会学

SAHRA CHRIST BÜCHER This university asks you what you want to do without you having to answer: We ask your nervous system what it responds to. We give you options, you choose. You have a deadline, th …

The church and the school are the eyes of the country community. They serve during the early development of the community as means of intelligence and help to develop the social consciousness, as wel …

The effects of the Black Death had not yet subsided, and the graves of millions of its victims were scarcely closed, when a strange delusion arose in Germany, which took possession of the minds of me …

The subject dealt with in this book is one of great, and one may say growing, importance. Whether it is that the present period is one of large increase in the numbers of men and women of an intermed …

What is a Saga? A Saga is a story, or telling in prose, sometimes mixed with verse. There are many kinds of Sagas, of all degrees of truth. There are the mythical Sagas, in which the wondrous deeds o …

When this book first appeared, the philological school of interpretation of religion and myth, being then still powerful in England, was criticised and opposed by the author. In Science, as on the Tu …

Is there any human institution which can be safely called ‘Totemism’? Is there any possibility of defining, or even describing Totemism? Is it legitimate-is it even possible, with due regard for ‘met …

This is the book that made its author Henry George suddenly famous. From the year 1879 to the present the doctrines of ‘Progress and Poverty’ have been familiar to all who are interested in social pr …

By the nature of things this book falls under two divisions. The first eight chapters criticise the current anthropological theory of the origins of the belief in spirits. Chapters ix.-xvii., again, …

After the heavy rain of a thunderstorm has washed the soil, it sometimes happens that a child, or a rustic, finds a wedge-shaped piece of metal or a few triangular flints in a field or near a road. T …