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of the Max Weber thesis as to the connection of Protestantism and capitalism, and his inadequate attention to a viewpoint like that of H. Richard Niebuhr, whose name does not even appear in the fifteen-page bibliography. Other points of possible criticism are the inadequate differentiation of sect and church, and the tendency to identify the verbal professions of various religious groups with actual reality without any attention to massive discrepancies. It is possible, however, that the author may be planning to treat some of these points in the subsequent volumes, which will certainly be awaited with eagerness.
EPHRAIM FISCHOFF

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self-analysis;

reticent, sensitive,

Hunter

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JANDY, EDWARD C. Charles Horton Cooley: His Life and His Social Theory. Pp. viii, 319. New York: The Dryden Press, 1942. $3.00. Here is a sensitively written book about a most sensitive man. Begun as a doctoral

dissertation, it has quite obviously matured and mellowed over a period of years, until
it appears not only as a valuable contribution to sociological literature, but as a work of art in itself. Of the 269 pages of the text proper, 109 are devoted to Cooley the man and the thinker. (In my opinion, Chapter III, &dquo;Thoughts on Science and Method,&dquo; belongs in this category as well as Part I on &dquo;Life.&dquo;) Jandy was most fortunate in having com-

and unsociable man, but keenly observant and analytical of what he wished to see from his exclusive watchtower; a man withal intellectually and spiritually bold, defiant, and self-assured. One suspects that Jandy has done it so well because, in addition to a flair for personality analysis, he found in Cooley a congenial and compatible spirit. Though admitting discipleship, he avoids worship. Another person would have given us a very different treatment. Cooleys social theory, quite appropriately, is divided into two parts. Under &dquo;Human Nature and Personality&dquo; we find an analytical and critical examination of the individual and society, the nature of social reality, the development of self and personality (including the &dquo;looking-glass&dquo; self), the social genesis of mind, the phases of self (including his anticipation of the Adlerian superiority-inferiority complexes), and the social aspects of conscience and personal degeneracy. In &dquo;Some Phases of Social Organization&dquo; are treated primary groups and ideals, public opinion and democracy, social classes, and institutions (including his contributions to institutional economics). Cooley is concerned with sociology not so much as a science-certainly
a statistical, particularistic, experimenscience, redolent of methodology and research-but as an organic body of ideas and subjective generalizations arrived at by &dquo;open and watchful imagination&dquo; and &dquo;sympathetic imagination&dquo; (Cooleys terms), and coming out of ones own intellectual and artistic being as illuminated and confirmed by ones own life experiences. Cooley gets full credit for his original and seminal contributions. Jandys treatment of the theory gives adequate coverage, and most of it is very good; some of it has already been done better by others. Here is, however, the first systematic and comprehensive analysis. A bibliography and revealing notes are attached. This is a book that sociologists, psychologists, social psychologists, and economists should read. J. O. HERTZLER University of Nebraska

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plete access to Cooleys records, files, correspondence, &dquo;Journals&dquo; (covering forty-six

and library. The result is a most comprehensive, sympathetic, and penetrating analysis of this pioneer in American sociology. We find here the important details of his ancestry, private life, and academic career, the unique but lovely ingredients of his personality, the influential factors, especially books and men, in the origin and flowering of his ideas, his general philosophy of life, and his professional and scientific points of view. Here pass in review the beacon lights and masters of his thought: A Kempis, Goethe, Emerson, Thoreau, Darwin, Bryce. We see here the Cooley whom many of us, who admired him from a distance only, had analyzed in part -an introspective and contemplative man,

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BARNES, HARRY ELMER, and OREEN M. RUEDI. The American Way of Life.

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