Hello:
Ocassionally some of the communications on this net raise questions
about the origins of Kelly's formulations.
I have come across some material that I am writing into a piece I am
completing, as follows:
W. I. Thomas' aphorism: "If men define situations as real, they are
real in their consequences (cited in Gusfield, 1979).
{? Is that something that might have been turned into the Fundamental
postulate???}
Can Thomas's aphorism be regarded as a paraphrase of James statement
that "ideas (which themselves are but parts of our experience) become
true just in so far as they help us to get into satisfactory relations
with other parts of our experience (James, 1942/1907, 1909, emphasis
James').
Does anyone out there know the actual source of Thomas' statement.
I have seen it quoted in two different places, but neither of the people
who used the quote bothered to offer the citation. I guess that is what
happens to a statement that becomes an aphorism!!!
Best,
Jim Mancuso
There is quite a story on W. I. Thomas.... an outstanding scholar at
U. of Chicago. He did a classic work that was way ahead of its time;
with F. Znaniecki -- The Polish Peasant in Europe and America. Living in
the Buffalo, NY area at the time that I first read Kelly, and being
interested in the Polish-American community there, I read the T & Z
work, and was titillated by the ways in which the interepretaions they
offered paralleled those of Kelly.
Jim Mancuso
--
James C. Mancuso Dept. of Psychology
15 Oakwood Place University at Albany
Delmar, NY 12054 1400 Washington Ave.
Tel: (518)439-4416 Albany, NY 12222
Mailto:mancusoj@capital.net
http://www.capital.net/~soialban/index.html
A website dedicated to information on Italian-
American history and heritage.
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Hello:
Ocassionally some of the communications on this
net raise questions about the origins of Kelly's formulations.
I have come across some material that I am writing
into a piece I am completing, as follows:
W. I. Thomas' aphorism: "If men define situations as real,
they are real in their consequences (cited in Gusfield, 1979).
{? Is that something that might have been turned into the Fundamental
postulate???}
Can Thomas's aphorism be regarded as a paraphrase
of James statement that "ideas (which themselves are but parts of our experience)
become true just in so far as they help us to get into satisfactory relations
with other parts of our experience (James, 1942/1907, 1909, emphasis James').
Does anyone out there know the actual source of Thomas'
statement. I have seen it quoted in two different places, but neither
of the people who used the quote bothered to offer the citation.
I guess that is what happens to a statement that becomes an aphorism!!!
Best,
Jim Mancuso
There is quite a story on W. I. Thomas.... an outstanding
scholar at U. of Chicago. He did a classic work that was way ahead
of its time; with F. Znaniecki -- The Polish Peasant in Europe and America.
Living in the Buffalo, NY area at the time that I first read Kelly, and
being interested in the Polish-American community there, I read the T &
Z work, and was titillated by the ways in which the interepretaions they
offered paralleled those of Kelly.
Jim Mancuso
--
James C. Mancuso Dept. of
Psychology
15 Oakwood Place University
at Albany
Delmar, NY 12054 1400 Washington
Ave.
Tel: (518)439-4416 Albany, NY 12222
Mailto:mancusoj@capital.net
http://www.capital.net/~soialban/index.html
A website dedicated to information on Italian-
American
history and heritage.
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