As he put it in the Preface to Dynamic Sociology, " The real object of science is to benefit man.
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Ward's " Dynamic Sociology " ( 1883 ) was an extended thesis on how to reduce conflict and competition in society and thus optimize human progress.
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Ward later expanded this concept in his books " Dynamic Sociology " ( 1883 ) and " The Psychic Factors of Civilization " ( 1892 ).
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However, a close reading of his " " Dynamic Sociology " " will uncover several statements that would be considered somewhat racist and ethnocentric by today's standards.
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In " Dynamic Sociology " ( 1883 ) Lester Frank Ward laid out the philosophical foundations of the Progressive movement and attacked the laissez-faire policies advocated by Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner.
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George Herbert Mead and Charles H . Cooley were influential in the development of symbolic interactionism and social psychology at the University of Chicago, while Lester Ward emphasized the central importance of the scientific method with the publication of " Dynamic Sociology " in 1883.
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With the publication of the two-volume, 1, 200-page, " Dynamic Sociology : Or Applied Social Science as Based Upon Statical Sociology and the Less Complex Sciences " ( 1883 ), Lester Ward hoped to restore the central importance of experimentation and the scientific method to the field of sociology.
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