• ISBN13: 9788171564965
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: April 22, 1994
• Pages: 532
• Original Price: INR 750.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 570 grams

The book provides a comprehensive and authoritative study of the subject. The author is a well-known authority in the field of Psychology.

William McDougall (22 June 1871 – 28 November 1938) was an early 20th century psychologist who spent the first part of his career in the United Kingdom and the latter part in the United States. He wrote a number of highly influential textbooks, and was particularly important in the development of the theory of instinct and of social psychology in the English-speaking world. He was an opponent of behaviourism and stands somewhat outside the mainstream of the development of Anglo-American psychological thought in the first half of the 20th century; but his work was very well-known and respected among lay people.

• Chapter I
• Introduction

• Section I

• The Mental Characters of Man of Primary Importance for his Life in Society
• Chapter II
• The nature of instincts and their place in the constitution of the human mind
• Chapter III
• The principal instincts and the primary emotions of man
• Chapter IV
• Some general or non-specific innate tendencies
• Chapter V
• The nature of the sentiments and the constitution of some of the complex emotions
• Chapter VI
• The development of the sentiments
• Chapter VII
• The growth of self-consciousness and of the self-regarding sentiment
• Chapter VIII
• The advance to the higher plane of social conduct
• Chapter IX
• Volition

• Section II

• The Operation of the Primary Tendencies the Human Mind in the Life of Societies
• Chapter X
• The reproductive and the parental instincts
• Chapter XI
• The instinct of pugnacity
• Chapter XII
• The gregarious instinct
• Chapter XIII
• The instincts through which religious conceptions affect social life
• Chapter XIV
• The instincts of acquisition and construction
• Chapter XV
• Imitation, play, and habit
• Supplementary Chapter I
• Theories of action
• Supplementary Chapter II
• The sex instinct
• Supplementary Chapter III
• The derived emotions
• Supplementary Chapter IV
• Notes on chapters iii. To ix.
• Supplementary Chapter V
• Instincts of man in the light of recent discussion
• Supplementary Chapter VI
• The structure of character
• Supplementary Chapter VII
• The hormic psychology
• Supplementary Chapter VIII
• A rectification, a difficulty, and an addition
• Index