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Southern Illinois University Press, Published 1966. Hardcover, lxiv, 430 pp.; 22 cm; Perspectives in Sociology series; reprint of the 1918 edition with a new introduction by Roscoe C. Hinkle and a foreword by Herman R. Lantz.
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In Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine; mild edge and surface wear; binding tight. Previous owners' engraved bookplate to the front pastedown and an inked ownership name to the title page; some very light pencil underlining and one or two pencil marginal notes scattered through the text. Publisher's tan dust jacket with red lettering shows light surface and edge wear, a hint of fading to the spine, and sticker residue to the spine. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.First published in 1918, Social Process was the third volume of Charles Horton Cooley's sociological trilogy, following Human Nature and the Social Order and Social Organization. Cooley treats social change as a natural, organic tendency, taking up opportunity and class, valuation, group conflict, public opinion, and the role of intelligence in social life. This Southern Illinois University Press reissue reprints the text with a substantial new introduction by Roscoe C. Hinkle placing Cooley's work in the context of postwar American sociology.Contents: The Organic View of the Process of Human Life; Personal Aspects of Social Process; Degeneration; Social Factors in Biological Survival; Group Conflict; Valuation; Intelligent Process.