Hornell Hart
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hornell Hart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hornell |
| FAMILY NAME | Hart |
| SIGNATURE | HART H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1921 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Comparative Sex Mores among Protestant and Catholic Sociology Students
A Laboratory Manual for Introductory Sociology
Technology and Social Change
A Sociology of Education
"Toward an Operational Definition of the Term "Operation
STUART DODD said, in 1943: A definition is operational . . . to the extent that the definer (a) specifies the procedure for identifying or generating the definiendum and (b) finds high reliability . . . for the definition. 1 More than 140 articles relating to operationism have appeared in learned journals in recent decades. Yet there has been almost complete absence in these articles of any systematic attempt to define operationally (in the sense…
Some Cultural-Lag Problems Which Social Science Has Solved
Prosperity and Political Victory
If the outcome of U.S. elections is determined largely by business conditions as has often been assumed—election results should show a correlation with indices of business activity. When Ayers' index is correlated with the outcome of major national elections during the past ten decades, however, either insignificant correlations or absence of correlation is found. Mr. Wilkinson is a graduate student in Sociology and Dr. Hart is Professor of Socio…
Occidental Civilization. G. S. Ghurye
Rejoinder to Gundlach's critique
Social Science and the Atomic Crisis
International Control of Atomic Energy: Policy at the Crossroads: An Informal Summary Record of the Policy Developments Concerning the International Control of Atomic Energy, October 15, 1946, to May …
The Pre-War Upsurge in Social Science
The Social Effects of Aviation
Factuality and the Discussion of Values
Journal Article Factuality and the Discussion of Values Get access Hornell Hart Hornell Hart Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 25, Issue 3, March 1947, Pages 290–294, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/25.3.290 Published: 01 March 1947
Measuring Degrees of Verification in Sociological Writings
IN SEEKING to develop a practicable method of measuring, as accurately as feasible, the degrees of verifiability attained in sociological articles and books, experiments have been made through which readily recognizable and statistically significant indicators have been identified and incorporated in a workable rating technique. The resulting method is based upon the classification of articles in sociological journals, and of randomly selected se…
Comparative Standards of Social-Science Periodicals
Verifiability Ratings of Articles in Social Science
Ten students obtained independently the "scientific verifiability scores" of fifty-five articles in three numbers each from the American Sociological Review, the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, and the Political Science Quarterly. The intercorrelations between their ratings range from .712 to .940. Even the lowest of these correlations is extremely significant statistically. A combination of the ratings obtained by the four best judges…
Technological Acceleration and the Atomic Bomb
Food for the World
Depression, War, and Logistic Trends
This study presents twelve different series of statistical data, in which growth previous to 1928 conformed very closely to logistic trends. In seven of these, the great depression brought statistically significant departures from previous trends, with no clearly established postdepression trend; in five series, two or more successive logistic trends are shown. Of the nine series inaugurated before 1915, five maintained their logistic trends duri…
A Reliable Scale of Value Judgments
E VERY personality is confronted at frequent intervals with the necessity of choosing between alternative courses of action. Every social organization, also, is confronted over and over again with this same necessity for choosing between alternative programs. The results of such choices may be observed overtly in terms of the energy expended by the personality or organization in pursuing the chosen course of action. Subjectively we experience the…
Logistic Social Trends
In over 100 social time-series, logistic trend lines have been fitted or suggested. In 30 of these it has been proved that the observed trends are not due to mere random variation. Various other mathematical formulas have been applied to S-shaped trends; but, where rigorous tests of relative closeness of fir have been applied, the logistic trend, or a series of logistic cycles, has usually proved superior. The Gompertz curve has been preferred by…
The T.V.A. Lessons for International Application
Expectation of Life as an Index of Social Progress
Was There a Prehistoric Trend from Smaller to Larger Political Units
As a step toward more trustworthy social prediction, especially in the field of international relations, this article demonstrates the reliability, validity, and intercorrelation of indices of political and of technological development among forty-six representative modern preliterate peoples. A rating scale for technological development, applicable to either modern or prehistoric peoples, is presented, and its validity is demonstrated. A rating …
Technology and Social Change
The Daily Newspaper in America
An Introduction to Sociology
Technological Acceleration and the Atomic Bomb
Logistic Social Trends
In over 100 social time-series, logistic trend lines have been fitted or suggested. In 30 of these it has been proved that the observed trends are not due to mere random variation. Various other mathematical formulas have been applied to S-shaped trends; but, where rigorous tests of relative closeness of fir have been applied, the logistic trend, or a series of logistic cycles, has usually proved superior. The Gompertz curve has been preferred by…
Chart for Happiness
Have Subhuman Animals Culture
Although the continuity of animal life from thelowest up through homo sapiens is almost universally accepted among scientists, there is still a widespread tendency to make a sharp distinction between man and lower animals in capacity for culture. Culture consists in behavior patterns transmitted by imitation or tuition. Domesticated animals acquire culture complexes from human beings. Animals acquire behavior complexes by the limitation of one an…
What is a Social Problem
An inductive study of the topics covered in leading books and articles discussing social problems suggests their classification under the four heads: economic, health, political, and educational problems. Further analysis leads to a definition covering all the problems listed. None of them can be solved without the aid of highly specialized technique, but none of them, on the other hand, can be satisfactorily isolated from the others and solved b…
Depression, War, and Logistic Trends
This study presents twelve different series of statistical data, in which growth previous to 1928 conformed very closely to logistic trends. In seven of these, the great depression brought statistically significant departures from previous trends, with no clearly established postdepression trend; in five series, two or more successive logistic trends are shown. Of the nine series inaugurated before 1915, five maintained their logistic trends duri…
Sorokin's Data Versus His Conclusions
The organism of the Western society and culture seems to have not merely a number of local or superficial ailments, but to be undergoing one of the deepest crises of its life .... It is the crisis of a Sensate culture, now in its overripe stage, the culture that has dominated the Western World during the last five centuries. It is also the crisis of a contractual (capitalistic) society associated with it. In this sense we are experiencing one of …
The Christian Understanding of Man
Comparative Sex Mores among Protestant and Catholic Sociology Students
Expectation of Life as an Index of Social Progress
Religion
Magazine discussion of religious topics has sunk during the past decade to the lowest relative amount of the present century. As during previous recent decades, this decrease was due to declines in discussion of traditional and institutional phases, while ethical-and spiritual-life phases increased. The number of adult church members per 1,000 of adult population was nearly three million smaller in 1940 than ten years earlier. The two world-wars …
Three Theories of Society
Science and Sociology
The scientific achievements of sociology have been disappointing. Sociology is properly a utilitarian science. The five methods of sociology.-In it five inductive methods of seeking truth may be considered. The common-sense method, consisting in generalizing from data which chance to come to hand, has been the most prominent. The historical method uses documents as its data. The museum or census method, having classification as its goal, has been…
Science and Sociology
The scientific achievements of sociology have been disappointing. Sociology is properly a utilitarian science. The five methods of sociology.-In it five inductive methods of seeking truth may be considered. The common-sense method, consisting in generalizing from data which chance to come to hand, has been the most prominent. The historical method uses documents as its data. The museum or census method, having classification as its goal, has been…
What is a Social Problem
An inductive study of the topics covered in leading books and articles discussing social problems suggests their classification under the four heads: economic, health, political, and educational problems. Further analysis leads to a definition covering all the problems listed. None of them can be solved without the aid of highly specialized technique, but none of them, on the other hand, can be satisfactorily isolated from the others and solved b…
Have Subhuman Animals Culture
Although the continuity of animal life from thelowest up through homo sapiens is almost universally accepted among scientists, there is still a widespread tendency to make a sharp distinction between man and lower animals in capacity for culture. Culture consists in behavior patterns transmitted by imitation or tuition. Domesticated animals acquire culture complexes from human beings. Animals acquire behavior complexes by the limitation of one an…
The History of Social Thought: A Consensus of American Opinion
Journal Article The History of Social Thought: A Consensus of American Opinion Get access Hornell Hart Hornell Hart Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 6, Issue 2, December 1927, Pages 190–196, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/6.2.190 Published: 01 December 1927
Two New General Text Books
An Introduction to Sociology
News and Notes
Belief in Immortality Immortability . S. D. McConnell Man's Consciousness of Immortality . W. Douglas Mackenzie Spiritualism and the Church . Daniel Hole
The Transmutation of Motivation
Einstein's demonstration of the fundamental identity of differing forms of physical energy has a parallel in social forces. Experiment has demonstrated that internal bodily activities afford little or no evidence of emotions as characteristically different states of the organism. Emotions are differing conscious forms of one basic reality-nervous energy. Its bodily expressions are (I) symptoms of modified metabolism; (2) disorganized safety-valve…
Whither Progress
Journal Article Whither Progress? Get access Hornell Hart Hornell Hart Bryn Mawr College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 10, Issue 1, October 1931, Pages 128–132, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/10.1.128 Published: 01 October 1931
Changing Opinions About Business Prosperity: A Consensus of Magazine Opinion in the U. S., 1929-32
Trends in American Thinking about the economic emergency, as expressed in leading magazines, have been summarized for the period January, 1929, to June, 1932. Two groups of general periodicals, the huge-circulation (over one million) group and the lesser-circulation, or S. N. N. C., group (including the Survey, Nation, New Republic, and Christian Century), were analyzed in detail by "attitude indicators" simple, unmodified statements of specified…
Trends of Change in Textbooks on the Family
Textbooks on the family, published by American writers since the Word War, have largely abandoned the ethnological and historical treatment of the subject, which predominated in earlier texts, and have turned toward social problems and personality relationships of family life. Similar trends are evident in articles on the family published in social science periodicals. But courses on the family in colleges and universities have lagged in shifting…
The Future Life . Frederick A. M. Spencer Loaves and Fishes . Hereward Carrington My Adventure into Spiritualism . E. Lee Howard The Secret Path . Paul Brunton An Outline of Modern Occultism . Cyril S…
A Rejoinder
Personality and the Family
Outfitting for Spiritual Marriage
Introductory Sociology
Powers That Be. Alexander Cannon
The Light of the Mind . Benoni B. Gattell , Helen Stone
Three Theories of Society
Value-Judgment in Sociology
The Church and the Challenge of To-Day
The Christian Understanding of Man
The Daily Newspaper in America
New Frontiers of Religion
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