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The craving for superiority by Raymond Dodge( Book )
9 editions published in 1931 in English and held by 322 libraries worldwide
"This book represents an approach to a scientific doctrine of the craving for superiority expressing a synthesis of two points of view, one psychological and the other psychopathological with their respective traditions and aims. We hope that it may act as a stimulus, not only for a better understanding of an important group of mental phenomena, but also for a more comprehensive and precise description of these phenomena, and for sounder practical systems which take them into account. Especially should it operate as a corrective in both fields for hasty and ill-considered generalizations. We do not intend to suggest a panacea for the amelioration of all abnormal personalities and we wish to avoid an oversimplification of the mental and bodily conditions of the psychopath. We are of the opinion, however, that the craving for superiority and the feeling of superiority are important and almost universal factors in human psychology and are worth studying as such. Furthermore, we believe that the cooperative approach which is represented in this study is one method among others which may help in the difficult task of understanding human nature"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)

The plans of men by Leonard W Doob( Book )
3 editions published in 1940 in English and held by 311 libraries worldwide

Social and economic aspects of Swedish population movements, 1750-1933 by Dorothy Swaine Thomas Thomas( Book )
4 editions published in 1941 in English and held by 302 libraries worldwide

The unemployed worker; a study of the task of making a living without a job by E. Wight Bakke( Book )
5 editions published in 1940 in English and held by 297 libraries worldwide

Criteria for the life history, with analyses of six notable documents by John Dollard( Book )
10 editions published between 1935 and 2009 in English and held by 296 libraries worldwide
The element for which we are perennially seeking in the social sciences is a significant concept of the person to set off against our valuable formal descriptions of social life. This lack has served as an irritant leading to the elaboration of many schemes of social psychology and of much speculative thought about the individual. A more realistic effort emerging in many social science branches at about the same time has been the use of the life-history document as a method of filling the gap. In recent years increasing attention has been paid to life-history methods and many claimants for the attention of the scientific public have come forward. The value of the attempts so far has been to center attention on the life of the individual as an event worth the attention of social scientists; many useful though partial views have been developed. Despite the effort expended so far, the life history remains a much suspected tool of research and no comfortable certainty exists as to what an adequate life history document will eventually look like. This does not end the problem because in a number of fields the scientific worker is brought up against the necessity of making some kind of sense of material on the individual life. The life history is in reality a common task of a considerable number of fields. At the present time it plays a role in the teaching and research of sociology, psychology and psychiatry. By no means least of all, the social worker is concerned with the technique of taking and analyzing life-history materials, for she has pressed upon her every day the empirical necessities which make good judgment imperative. It is hoped that the criteria will be useful to all of these groups of workers. This book is intended to reduce confusion in the life-history field and to offer a blend structure of principles from the fields of cultural studies and clinical psychology. No innovations are attempted except those involved in re-thinking the problem of the life history from both of these standpoints. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)

Union-management coöperation in the "stretch-out" ; labor extension at the Pequot mills by Richmond C Nyman( Book )
6 editions published between 1934 and 1935 in English and Undetermined and held by 259 libraries worldwide

Technology & labor; a study of the human problems of labor saving by Elliott Dunlap Smith( Book )
2 editions published in 1939 in English and held by 253 libraries worldwide

Mathematico deductive theory of rote learning; a study in scientific methodology ( Book )
6 editions published between 1940 and 1967 in English and held by 250 libraries worldwide

Yale University publications in anthropology by Yale University( serial )
in English and held by 248 libraries worldwide

Insurance or dole? The adjustment of unemployment insurance to economic and social facts in Great Britain by E. Wight Bakke( Book )
4 editions published in 1935 in English and held by 235 libraries worldwide