Politics and social life : an introduction to political behavior (Record no. 8772)

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Classification number 320 Pol
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Personal name Polsby, Nelson W.
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Title Politics and social life : an introduction to political behavior
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Bouston
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Houghton Mifflin
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1963
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Extent 879p.
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Summary, etc. For some time, each of us has felt a need for a book in which the developing<br/>area of intellectual life that is sometimes styled "political behavior" put its best<br/>foot forward to our students. We hope the present book serves to introduce them<br/>to the study of political behavior by suggesting some of the variety and vitality of<br/>the field, by showing how political behavior studies go about advancing knowledge,<br/>and by indicating some of the major findings about political life that have been<br/>expressed in these studies.<br/>The major premise, we suppose, which undergirds the entire study of political<br/>behavior is simply that political life is but one kind - a most interesting kind - of<br/>social life. As men come together and relate to one another in a variety of ways,<br/>they develop practices of all kinds. Human societies are thus characterized by<br/>reasonably stable practices relating to kinship, the production and exchange of<br/>goods, the division of labor and numerous other activities, including activities<br/>which can be regarded as political, such as the settlement of conflicts and the<br/>collective determination of policy for large numbers of people. The quest for laws<br/>describing accurately the political activities of men can, we think, be greatly enriched<br/>by continuous attention to laws which are being developed and tested and which<br/>describe men in other aspects of their lives.<br/>As in any book of readings, we as editors accepted the task of including some<br/>articles and excluding others, perhaps equally good. It may be useful, therefore,<br/>to mention some of the criteria which guided us. Every reading in this book has<br/>been selected to make a pedagogical point of one kind or another. The particular<br/>points involved are mentioned in the essays introducing each chapter. We have<br/>worked hard to keep to a minimum articles whose main virtue was that they stated<br/>succinctly points of view which we would have been inclined to attack. When we<br/>could, we put in hard-to-find articles in preference to readily available ones. In<br/>several cases, we were fortunate in attracting previously unpublished works which<br/>we thought said some things that needed saying better than anything we had seen<br/>in print.<br/>Social science is a collective enterprise, as this book should make clear. This<br/>has been a collaborative effort, not only among three editors of widely differing<br/>backgrounds, tastes and temperaments, but also between us and each of the<br/>authors whose work is reprinted here. We want to thank them, and their publishers,<br/>for allowing us to republish their work in this format. We also want to thank
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Political Science
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Personal name Dentler, Robert A.
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Personal name Smith, Paul A.
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