Clifford Kirkpatrick
University of Minnesota
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Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science | 1932
Clifford Kirkpatrick
Among more sophisticated and scientific students of the family there is at times a tendency to ignore the complexity of family relations, the circularity and roundaboutness in the so-called causal relationships obtaining among social phenomena, and the necessity of understanding in order to control. The lack of any absolute norms or standards to guide the adjustment of marital relations is not always realized. An interesting example of lack of insight and perspective on the part of certain persons is the constant preoccupation with the problem of divorce. Divorce is obviously the last step in the process of alienation which is made more or less inevitable by the fact that a particular couple marries. If copper wires meet to sputter and smolder until they burn themselves apart, we do not bewail the separation but rather the sparks. We do not hold the wires together so they may learn to get along more quietly. Even if it were the breaking of a sacred connection to which we objected, our concern would be in keeping certain wires apart in the first place. It is the writers thesis that we have
Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science | 1947
Clifford Kirkpatrick
gress. The person who is not well acquainted with the historical backgrounds of 1848 will find this book difficult reading. Aside from appealing primarily to the historian, the essay is scholarly also in the peculiar but frequently met-with sense of developing problems without making explicit the arrangement of their treatment, and of carefully documenting quotations and other statements without disclosing the principle of their selection. It would appear that to the expert-which this reviewer is notthe main contribution of the essay is the bringing together of numerous previously untapped or at least untranslated sources, chiefly in Slavic languages. The main impression of the layman is that 1848 represented a powerful uprising of nationalist sentiments, rather than of liberalism-an impression probably contrary to his expectations. It is not clear, however, in what sense 1848 was a &dquo;revolution of the intellectuals&dquo; other than in the vague sense that the liberal ideologies were largely shipwrecked on Realpolitik. There is no analysis of the social setting of the leaders of 1848, although the essay contains some scattered and casual statements in this re-
Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science | 1940
Clifford Kirkpatrick
evitable, as much that happens in human relations is guided by a sympathetic intuition whose results seem magical when recited in cold type. The book does not take its place in any particular &dquo;school&dquo; of social case work. It is eclectic in method and catholic in its acceptances, and is a satisfactory guide for anyone who wants to know what is this thing called social case work. FRANK J. BRUNO Washington University
Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science | 1936
Clifford Kirkpatrick
on Les Balkans, the bi-monthly official organ of the Secretariat of the Balkan Conferences. The style is mostly lucid and fluent; the author’s viewpoint realistic, yet hopeful. The appendices perform a real service to the reader by presenting for comparison the full texts of the Balkan Pact, the Little Entente treaties, the Statutes of the Balkan Entente, and the Argentine Anti-War Pact. The book is fully indexed and contains a map of Balkan communications.
Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science | 1936
Clifford Kirkpatrick
Several minor technical criticisms may be made. Historians would find the reading of the present study easier, if more effort had been made to secure continuity in the narrative. In some sections, this may have been impossible, but in others it could have been approximated more closely. Anthropologists may feel that the first place afforded contemporary primitive peoples in the narrative implies that they represent the earlier formswhich is not necessarily the case. Population students may suspect that the apparent discrepancy between the introduction of modern devices in England prior to 1830, and the lag in birth rate decline there until 1870, may be ascribed to the improvement of registration procedures-rather than to any failure to use these devices (p. 223). To the extent -that registration became more complete, it would tend to conceal any fall in the birth rate. If this was actually what happened, more might be credited here to modern techniques than the author himself is willing to claim for them. It seems almost ungrateful to make
Social Forces | 1933
Clifford Kirkpatrick
themselves, as we have already pointed out, need to raise their present level of scholarship. The sociologist in particular must have not only some mastery of the complexities of the inductive study of human society, but as we have insisted, he must know all that the antecedent sciences have to give him and at the same time be able to make full use of social imagination and critical reasoning. Without a synthesis of all of these methods scientific sociology is impossible.
Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science | 1931
Clifford Kirkpatrick
Though journalistic competence and academic finesse are by no means exclusive, he undoubtedly has stressed the melodrama of American labor more than its detailed history, though for his purposes he has kept his scholarship remarkably adequate. But he has written an enormously significant book, because he has very shrewdly and ably reevaluated the history of our labor movement with one emphatic gauge, and a rather brilliantly simple gauge. He believes that this history is the story of a class struggle; and accordingly he traces it in terms of physical violence, behavioristically as it were. Since it takes two classes to make a class struggle, he makes it amply clear that in his view the violence of capital is the agent to which labor’s violence is the reagent. But the author is primarily concerned with the ideologies, the emotions, and the physical acts of industrial conflict as carried
Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science | 1931
Clifford Kirkpatrick
MICHELS, ROBERT. Der Patriotismus . Pp. viii, 269. Munich: Duncker u. Humblot, 1929. This volume by the distinguished sociologist now of the University of Perugia, Italy, is a collection of sociological studies on the theme, perhaps above all others, upon which the author is uniquely prepared to speak. Thoroughly steeped in the languages and cultures of Western Europe, trained in history and economics, productive in general social theory, Professor Michels can approach the phenomenon of patriotism with an almost unrivaled depth of formal and informal experience. The four chapters of the present book deal respectively with the myth of the fatherland, the relation between love of fatherland and
Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science | 1926
Clifford Kirkpatrick
more objective and scientific manner. Without minimizing the importance of the biological and organic foundations of individual and social behavior, he has described group behavior as essentially psycho-social. While giving due recognition to the evolutionary processes in both the organic and the superorganic spheres, he has made perfectly clear the types of modifications observable in the working out of these processes in the acquired products of cultural achievment. As he points out, the book does not attempt to solve psychological problems, but sociological problems. It is therefore a contribution to sociological theory and should prove valuable in clarifying thinking in this sphere. While organized primarily in textbook form, it is non-technical and will appeal to the general reader. J. P. LICHTENBERGER.
Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science | 1926
Clifford Kirkpatrick
This is a substantial textbook dealing with sociology as a science rather than as a study of social problems and with emphasis on its biological aspects. The goal of progress is considered to be individual development, while integration, variation and selection are regarded as the fundamental social processes. The topics of influence of environment, conflict, state and law are discussed in connection with the desire for self-preservation. Likewise a logical relation is assumed between sex, the family, population, migration, heredity and a desire for race continuance. Psychological factors, chiefly imitation and suggestion, are referred to a desire for approbation, and the cultural facts of morality, art, science and religion to a consciousness of life. The treatment of population, migration and heredity shows clear thinking and sound knowledge, but the author does not, however, handle the psychological and cultural factors so well. There is a ten-
