THE CONTROL OF THE SOCIAL MIND: PSYCHOLOGY OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL RELATIONS

The present volume considers the resources and operations, and the direction of the more public phases of mental behavior. It sets forth the basis of social conductwhat nature supplies for the complex life demanded of the citizen of to-day, and what human effort has done and must continue to do to bring the processes of socialization to a reasonable efficiency. Social psychology has come to occupy the centre of the stage; and much that is written and spoken in its name shows more familiarity with the terminology than with vital activities and their inner nature. Professor Weeks' treatment is intimate and realistic, almost clinical in the sense that it imparts of social bonds and relations experienced in actual contacts, not formulated in arm-chair principles. Yet it is the special function of the man of science the psychologist in this instance to make articulate the knowledge and the wisdom born of the practical life, and give it a local habitation as well as a name in the mental possessions of the responsible reflective man.