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This is Volume XIII of eighteen in a collection of the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology. Imitation has long been an important concept, as well in social theory as in social practices. In their endeavour to explain how societies are organized and held together, allow cultures are transmitted from one generation to the next, social scientists have made wide use of the concept of imitation. As a key idea in theory and practice it has been the subject of much systematic discussion. Originally published in 1945, In this volume the authors have made a fresh attack upon the problem with a set of concepts which seem peculiarly relevant to it. If imitative tendencies are not instinctive they must be learned, the argument runs. discussion of how such learning takes place.

Neal E. Miller, John Dollard

Chapter 1 Learning: Its Conditions and Principles; Chapter 2 Four Fundamentals of Learning; Chapter 3 Significant Details of the Learning Process; Chapter 4 A Basis for Acquired Drives and Acquired Rewards; Chapter 5 Higher Mental Processes; Chapter 6 A Pattern Case of Imitation; Chapter 7 The Learning and the Generalization of Imitation: Experiments on Animals; Chapter 8 The Learning of Imitation: Experiments on Children; Chapter 9 Varying Cases of Matched-Dependent Behaviour; Chapter 10 Copying: The Rôle of Sameness and Difference; Chapter 11 The Prestige of Models: Experiments on Children; Chapter 12 The Social Conditions Producing Imitation; Chapter 13 Imitation and Independent Learning: Experiment on Children; Chapter 14 Crowd Behaviour; Chapter 15 Analysis of a Lynching; Chapter 16 Copying in the Diffusion of Culture;