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Tables of Contents for Diagnosis of Our Time
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
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
1
Christianity in the Age of Planning
Christianity at the cross-roads. Will it associate itself with the masses of side with 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
49
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 pseudoreligious 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
1
General Ethics
153
4
The problem of survival values
153
2
The problem of asceticism
155
1
The split consciousness
156
1
Ethics of Personal Relationships
157
4
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