Diagnosis Of Our Time V 3

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Pub. Date: 1998-01-26
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Table of Contents

Preface ix
Diagnosis of our Time
1(11)
The Significance of the New Social Techniques
1(3)
The Third Way: A Militant Democracy
4(4)
The Strategic Situation
8(4)
The Crisis in Valuation
12(19)
Conflicting Philosophies of Life
12(3)
Controversy About the Causes of Our Spiritual Crisis
15(2)
Some Sociological Factors Upsetting the Process of Valuation in Modern Society
17(9)
The Meaning of Democratic Planning in the Sphere of Valuations
26(5)
The Problem of Youth in Modern Society
31(23)
The Sociological Function of Youth in Society
32(5)
The Special Function of Youth in England in The Present Situation
37(9)
Main Conclusions
46(8)
Education, Sociology and the Problem of Social Awareness
54(19)
The Changing Features of Modern Educational Practice
54(3)
Some Reasons for the Need of Sociological Integration in Education
57(3)
The Role of Sociology in A Militant Democracy
60(13)
Mass Education and Group Analysis
73(22)
The Sociological Approach to Education
73(6)
Individual Adjustment and Collective Demands
79(7)
The Problem of Group Analysis
86(9)
Nazi Group Strategy
95(5)
Systematic Disorganization of Society
95(1)
Effect on the Individual
96(1)
The ``New Order''
97(1)
Making the New Leaders
98(2)
Towards a New Social Philosophy: A Challenge to Christian Thinkers by a Sociologist
100(66)
Christianity in the Age of Planning
Christianity at the cross-roads. Will it associate itself with the ruling minorities?
100(1)
Why the Liberal era could do without religion. The need for spiritual integration in a planned society
101(5)
Catholicism, Protestantism and the planned democratic order
106(3)
The meaning of religious and moral recommendations in a democratically planned order
109(2)
The move towards an ethics in which the right patterns of behaviour are more positively stated than in the previous age
111(2)
The tension between the private and parochial world on the one hand and the planned social order on the other
113(1)
Ethical rules must be tested in the social context in which they are expected to work
114(1)
Can sociology, the most secularized approach to the problems of human life, co-operate with theological thinking?
115(2)
The concepts of Christian archetypes
117(2)
Christian Values and the Changing Environment
The methods of historical reinterpretation. The passing and the lasting elements in the idea of Progress
119(3)
Planning and religious experience
122(1)
The meaning of Planning for Freedom in the case of religious experience
123(2)
The four essential spheres of religious experience
125(5)
The problem of genuinely archaic and of pseudo-religious experience
130(1)
Valuation and paradigmatic experience
131(4)
The sociological meaning of paradigmatic experience
135(4)
Summing up. New problems
139(4)
The emerging social pattern in its economic aspects
143(4)
The emerging social pattern and the problem of power and social control
147(2)
The nature of the co-operative effort that is wanted if the transition from an unplanned to a planned society is to be understood
149(3)
Analysis of some concrete issues which are subject to re-valuation
152(14)
General Ethics
153(1)
The problem of survival values
153(2)
The problem of asceticism
155(1)
The split consciousness
156(1)
Ethics of Personal Relationships
157(1)
The problem of privacy in the modern world
157(3)
The problem of mass ecstasy
160(1)
Ethics of Organized Relationships
161(5)
Notes 166(8)
Index of Subjects 174(5)
Index of Names 179

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