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Florian Znanieck. "Table of Contents." The Laws of Social Psychology. Chicago: University of Chicago (1925).

The Laws of Social Psychology

Table of Contents

Florian Znaniecki

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Preface

I .THE PROBLEM OF SCIENTIFIC LAWS IN MODERN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

• Are psychological laws in general possible?
• The ambition of social psychology
• Static laws
• Empirical uniformities of facts
• Laws of evolution
• Laws of finality
• Laws of motivation
• Laws of suggestive social interaction
• Quantitative laws
• Conclusion

II. SOCIAL ACTION AS OBJECT-MATTER OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

• Social experiences and acts
• The social action
• The social tendency
• The social situation

III. STABILITY AND NEW EXPERIENCE

• Stabilized and unstabilized activities
• Stabilization
• Mobilization
• Explanation of changes in stabilized activity

IV. CHANGES OF SOCIAL REACTION

• Negative change
• Positive change
• Social repression
• Social sublimation

V. CHANGES OF SOCIAL OBJECT

• Idealization
• Sensualization
• Generalization

VI. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONFLICT

• Definition of the conflict
• Inhibition
• Rationalization

VII. CHANGES OF THE REFLECTED SELF

• Social subjectivation
• Social objectivation

VIII. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS

• Extension of standpoint to all psychology
• Culturistic interpretation of experimental and pathological psychology

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