Excerpt from Personality and the Social Group

This volume represents a new approach to the study of personality. The individual has been systematically investigated in the past, but mainly from the standpoint of biometric measurements, psychological tests, and emotional conditionings. In this volume are brought together the research of men in social psychology and sociology who are now studying personality from a new point of view, as a product of group life.

That the individual and society are two aspects of human nature has been recognized by sociologists since Charles H. Cooley analyzed their interrelationships in his works Human Nature and the Social Order and Social Organization. But the conceptions which he set forth of human nature as sympathy and of one aspect of the social self as a "looking-glass" self were not immediately utilized in research on personality.

The publication of The Polish Peasant in Europe and America definitely set forth an exhibit of findings and of methods of how the individual might be studied in his group relationships and how a culture might be analyzed through the medium of personal documents.

It was therefore quite natural and fitting that the subject "The Individual in Relation to Society" should be the central topic of the twenty-second annual meeting of the American Sociological Society during the presidency of Dr. William I. Thomas, the senior author of The Polish Peasant in Europe and America. Because of the wide interest in the papers presented at that meeting, as evidenced in part by the exhaustion of the Proceedings and of the issues of the American Journal of Sociology in which they originally appeared, the Society has authorized their reprinting in book form.

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